Redeemer Lutheran

What Redeemer Lutheran does

Redeemer Lutheran Church is a nonprofit religious congregation located at 123 E. St. Charles Rd. in Elmhurst, Illinois, and a member of the English District of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). The church serves local residents seeking Christian worship, spiritual formation, and community fellowship, with a primary weekly service held Sundays at 10:00 am and adult education and Sunday School at 9:00 am. Its ministry portfolio includes Bible study groups, Sunday School, children's music programs (First Steps in Music and Joyful Sound), an art ministry, and a weekly sermon series delivered by Pastor Anthony Oliphant and published online.

The organization operates with a small core staff of four: Pastor Anthony Oliphant, Director of Parish Music Emily Woock, Office Administrator Mary Stahlke, and Sunday School Superintendent Linda Fischer. Technology infrastructure is modest and comprises a WordPress website (redeemerlcms.com) designed by Light Vision Group, an online sermon archive, a Facebook page under "Redeemer of Elmhurst," PayPal-hosted online donation capability, and a member portal hosted on onRealm.org. There are no proprietary platforms, APIs, or mobile applications.

The revenue model is donation-based, relying on voluntary tithes and contributions from the congregation collected both in-person during services and online via PayPal. There is no formal pricing, no productized services, and no disclosed revenue or membership figures. The church is governed within the denominational structure of the LCMS English District and has no external investment, no subsidiaries, and no commercial partnerships beyond standard service providers.

Name

Redeemer Lutheran

Legal name

Redeemer Lutheran Church

Website

https://redeemerlcms.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Redeemer Lutheran Church is a nonprofit LCMS congregation in Elmhurst, Illinois, serving local residents through weekly worship, Bible studies, Sunday School, children's music programs, and pastoral care, funded by voluntary donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Religious Organizations (813110)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Local Congregations & Worship Communities (Churches, Mosques, Temples, Synagogues) (BPAGAJAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

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

Keywords

• Lutheran worship services
• Christian education programs
• Bible study ministry
• Sunday school programs
• Congregational music ministry

Headquarters

HQ city

Elmhurst, Illinois

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Tithes: Voluntary donations from congregation members through online giving (PayPal) and in-person collections during services

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Redeemer Lutheran Church provides in-person Lutheran worship services, Bible study groups, Sunday School for children, music programs (First Steps in Music, Joyful Sound), pastoral sermons, and an Art Ministry. The church is supported by voluntary donations collected during services and through an online PayPal giving link.

Product overview

Redeemer Lutheran Church offers a unified ministry providing religious worship services, educational programs, and community engagement. The church's portfolio includes Bible Studies, Sunday School for children, music programs (First Steps in Music and Joyful Sound), weekly sermons, and an Art ministry. These services operate as interconnected programs under the church's mission to grow disciples of Jesus Christ.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bible Studies Bible study groups for spiritual growth and understanding of faith, held for congregants of Redeemer Lutheran Church.
• Sunday School Children's religious education program held at 9:00 am on Sundays at Redeemer Lutheran Church, providing Christian education for children.
• First Steps in Music Music education program for children introducing foundational musical concepts, run under Redeemer Lutheran's music ministry.
• Joyful Sound Church music program for children focused on joyful worship through song, part of Redeemer Lutheran's music ministry.
• Sermons Weekly sermons delivered by Pastor Anthony Oliphant based on Scripture readings, published on the church website as an online sermon archive.
• Art Ministry Art programs and creative expression opportunities within the Redeemer Lutheran Church community.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Others

• Subsplash: A church engagement platform offering giving, mobile apps, and media delivery. Comparable as an enabling technology provider to congregations of Redeemer's profile that may rely on simpler tools like PayPal and Realm.
• Tithe.ly: A church giving and mobile app platform that serves faith-based organizations. Adjacent/enabling peer — provides digital giving and member engagement tooling used by churches comparable to Redeemer Lutheran.
• Pushpay Holdings: A church-focused digital giving and engagement platform. Provides the kind of online donation infrastructure (PayPal/Realm are simpler alternatives) that congregations like Redeemer use or could upgrade to for stewardship and member engagement.

Broad incumbents

• The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod: The parent denomination of Redeemer Lutheran. Operates at a vastly broader geographic and institutional scale (national Synod with thousands of congregations, seminaries, and a publishing house), but is the encompassing body of which Redeemer is one local expression.
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA): The largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. Operates congregations, seminaries, and church-wide ministries in the same Lutheran worship and education space as Redeemer, but as a broader, more progressive body.

Regional players

• Church of the Lutheran Brethren: A smaller confessional Lutheran body in the United States. Comparable in scale and congregational model (small-to-mid-sized local Lutheran congregations), though more focused on evangelism and missions.
• Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS): A confessional Lutheran denomination comparable in theology and congregational structure to LCMS. Operates its own network of congregations, schools, and a seminary, and represents an alternative Lutheran ecclesiastical ecosystem to Redeemer's LCMS affiliation.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/RedeemerElmhurst
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/redeemer-lutheran

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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