Reality LA

What Reality LA does

Reality LA (legal name: Reality Church of Los Angeles) is an independent evangelical non-profit church founded by Tim Chaddick and based in Los Angeles, California. It serves a broad audience of seekers, returning believers, newcomers to Los Angeles, and long-time members through Sunday Gatherings held at two physical venues — Helen Bernstein High School in Hollywood at 10AM (with ASL interpretation, Kids and Youth ministry) and the Hope Center at 5PM — as well as a global online livestream. The church offers a structured 12-dynamic Discipleship Pathway operationalized through twice-yearly 10-week Discipleship Cohorts, citywide Community Groups, Baptism and Membership programs, and dedicated Kids, Youth, Faith and Work, Missions and Mercy, Worship, Gospel Care, and Prayer ministries. Leadership includes Tim Chaddick (lead pastor), Jeremy Treat (senior pastor), and Jonathan Fitzgerald (Director of Discipleship Pathway, 16-year tenure).

The underlying technology stack is standard non-profit church infrastructure: Pushpay for online giving and donations, Vimeo for hosting and streaming sermon video, and CCB (Church Community Builder) for online forms, registration, and member management. Content is organized on the website by sermon series, Scripture book, and teacher to support organic discovery. The organization maintains no public or partner-facing API, no mobile app, and no proprietary technology assets.

The business model is entirely donation-funded: all programming — Sunday Gatherings, Discipleship Cohorts, Community Groups, Baptism, Membership, and Kids/Youth ministries — is offered free of charge to participants, and the church operates on voluntary tithes and offerings routed through the Pushpay platform. With 19 staff and no disclosed financials, the company is a privately held non-profit religious organization governed by an elder board, with no parent company, institutional investors, or external funding rounds identified.

Name

Reality LA

Legal name

Reality Church of Los Angeles

Website

https://realityla.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Reality LA is an independent evangelical non-profit church in Los Angeles offering two in-person Sunday gatherings, online streaming, and a structured 12-dynamic Discipleship Pathway to seekers, families, youth, and working professionals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based Education & Formation (Seminaries, Religious Schools, Catechesis) (BPAGAJAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Religious Education, Kids & Family Faith Programming (MPABALAM), Religious Music & Worship Broadcasting (MPABALAN)

Keywords

• Christian church services
• Sunday worship gatherings
• Discipleship pathway programs
• Community groups ministry
• Kids and youth ministry

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings (Donations): Reality LA operates on voluntary tithes and offerings from its congregation. All giving takes place via the Pushpay app or online at reality.la/give. No programmatic fees are charged for attending Sunday gatherings, Discipleship Cohorts, community groups, or any other ministry program.

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Reality LA is a non-profit Christian church that operates weekly Sunday worship gatherings at two physical venues in Los Angeles (Helen Bernstein High School at 10AM and the Hope Center at 5PM) and through online livestream. Its core offering centers on a structured Discipleship Pathway comprising 12 dynamics of spiritual growth, supported by 10-week Discipleship Cohorts, city-wide Community Groups, Baptism, Church Membership, Kids Ministry (nursery through 5th grade), and Youth Ministry (middle and high school). All programming is provided free of charge and sustained entirely by voluntary tithes and offerings.

Product overview

Reality LA is a multi-site church in Los Angeles offering in-person and online worship services. The core offering consists of Sunday Gatherings (10AM at Helen Bernstein High School and 5PM at Hope Center, plus online streaming), supported by a comprehensive Discipleship Pathway with 12 named dynamics for spiritual growth. The church provides structured Discipleship Cohorts (10-week intensive programs), Community Groups, Baptism, and Membership programs. Content resources include Sermons (organized by series, Scripture, and teacher) and curated Discipleship Resources. Family ministries include Kids Ministry (nursery through 5th grade) and Youth Ministry (middle and high school). All content is delivered via integrations with Vimeo (video), Pushpay (giving), and CCB Church (forms).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sunday Gatherings
• Discipleship Pathway
• Discipleship Cohorts
• Community Groups
• Baptism
• Church Membership
• Kids Ministry
• Youth Ministry
• Sermons
• Faith and Work Ministry
• Prayer Ministry
• Gospel Care

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Elevation Church: A large multi-site evangelical church founded by Steven Furtick with strong digital content distribution and contemporary worship. Comparable on the scale of teaching-content production and online reach strategy.
• Gateway Church: A large multi-site evangelical church in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro with online broadcasting and structured discipleship. Comparable in operational scale and digital distribution orientation.
• Watermark Church: A large non-denominational evangelical church in Plano, Texas known for community groups, discipleship processes, and member-led ministry architecture. Operates a structurally analogous small-group and formation model.
• Summit Church: A large multi-site evangelical church (formerly The Summit Church, Durham NC) known for sermon-equipping resources (Summit Resources) and structured discipleship pathways. Comparable as a scaled model of teaching-and-pathway distribution beyond the local congregation.
• North Point Church: Andy Stanley's large multi-site evangelical church in the Atlanta metro, recognized for high-production teaching content distributed widely online and a structured community-group model. Comparable on digital teaching distribution and small-group philosophy.
• The Village Church: A large multi-site evangelical church in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro known for expository preaching, community groups, and a disciple-making pathway. Operates on a structurally similar ministry architecture to Reality LA.

Regional players

• Saddleback Church: One of the largest and most established evangelical churches in Southern California, founded by Rick Warren. Operates multiple physical campuses across the LA metro and Orange County — the principal large-scale regional competitor for evangelical congregants.

Direct peers

• Mosaic Church: An evangelical church in Los Angeles with multiple gatherings, strong community-group emphasis, and a comparable seeker-friendly posture. Most directly comparable mid-sized LA evangelical peer with overlapping methodology and demographic focus.

Emerging players

• Churchome (formerly Mars Hill Seattle / The Packing House): A multi-site evangelical church with a strong digital streaming presence and seeker-friendly, discipleship-oriented brand. Operates in the LA market and overlaps on the online-channel strategy and formation-product orientation.
• Practicing the Way: An organization (founded by John Mark Comer) that produces structured, licensable Christian discipleship curricula and 'Rule of Life' formation resources to churches. Directly comparable to Reality LA's 12-Dynamic Discipleship Pathway as a formation methodology product.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/realityla
• Facebookfacebook.com/realityla
• Instagraminstagram.com/realityla
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/reality-la

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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