Santa Cruz Bible Church

What Santa Cruz Bible Church does

Santa Cruz Bible Church is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Christian church founded in 1884 and headquartered at 440 Frederick Street, Santa Cruz, California. It operates a single physical campus hosting weekly Sunday morning worship services at 10:00am (approximately 60 minutes) with concurrent children's programming for ages 0-5th grade and a family room for baby care. The church supplements its primary worship service with a portfolio of ministries: Kids Program, Middle/High School Youth Group, Women's Ministry (including mentor matching and Bible studies), Community Groups meeting throughout the week in various neighborhoods, Interest Groups organized around shared hobbies, and Local & Global Outreach programs. The Outreach portfolio is material to the organization's footprint — its food pantry has nearly tripled monthly distribution and is recognized as the 2nd largest food distributor in Santa Cruz County; additional partnerships include annual support for a local Pregnancy Resource Center, decades-long operation of an after-school Kids Club at Gault Elementary School, and global missionary partnerships with UCI (Haiti-based nutrition, education, and health programs) and a Poland ministry. Online engagement is delivered via YouTube livestream and an on-demand sermon media library organized by series and speakers.

The organization's revenue model is donation-based: voluntary tithes and offerings from congregation members, captured through Pushpay (online), Venmo (@santacruzbible), text-to-give (SMS 'SCBC' to 77977), and traditional cash/check. Pricing is fully voluntary with no required fees for participation in services or programs. The underlying technology stack is intentionally minimal and commodity: a SnapPages-hosted website, YouTube for video streaming, Pushpay and Venmo for payment processing, and CCB Church management software for community group sign-ups. No proprietary technology, mobile app, AI/ML capability, or API infrastructure is in place. The organization employs approximately 15 staff and relies heavily on volunteer-driven ministry delivery. Leadership disclosed includes Teaching Pastor Matt Roden, Pastor Scott Newman, and speaker Dawn Lindholm.

Name

Santa Cruz Bible Church

Legal name

Santa Cruz Bible Church

Website

https://santacruzbible.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Santa Cruz Bible Church is a 501(c)(3) Christian church in Santa Cruz, California, founded in 1884, offering Sunday worship services, community groups, youth and children's ministries, and outreach programs including a food pantry recognized as the 2nd largest in the county. It is funded through voluntary donations and serves local families plus global missionary partners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

Faith-Based Missions & Evangelism Organizations (Domestic & International) (BPAGAJAE)

Keywords

• Christian church services
• Worship services ministry
• Faith community programs
• Religious education ministry
• Community outreach programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa Cruz

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: The church receives voluntary financial contributions from congregation members through multiple channels including online giving via Pushpay, Venmo, text-to-give, and traditional cash or check donations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Santa Cruz Bible Church operates as a Christian church offering weekly Sunday morning worship services at 10:00am at its Santa Cruz campus, complemented by an online livestream via YouTube. The church runs a multi-program ministry portfolio including children's programs (ages 0-5th grade), youth group, women's ministry, community groups, interest groups, and local/global outreach such as a food pantry and missionary support. All ministry is sustained by voluntary tithes and offerings collected through online giving (Pushpay, Venmo, text-to-give) and in-person donations.

Product overview

Santa Cruz Bible Church operates as a traditional church with a multi-program ministry portfolio rather than a technology product. The organization offers in-person and online Sunday worship services as its primary gathering, supported by complementary ministry programs including Kids Program, Youth Group, Women's Ministry, Community Groups, and Interest Groups. Service programs include Local & Global Outreach (food pantry, pregnancy resource center, missionary support) and an Online Giving system with multiple payment integrations. A Sermon Media Library provides on-demand access to past teachings organized by series and speakers. The church uses YouTube for livestreaming, Pushpay and Venmo for online donations, and CCB Church for community group management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sunday Worship Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Nearly tripled food distribution to the community monthly while becoming the 2nd largest food distributor in Santa Cruz County

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• JeanJean & Kristie Mompremiers (UCI)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2005Global missionaries who founded UCI, which has grown from a 3-month stay in Fall 2005 into 9 nutrition centers, a health clinic, elementary & secondary school, a university including seminary, medical school, nursing program, agriculture school, and elementary education teacher certification program.
• Paul & Karen Haenze (Poland Ministry)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMissionaries serving in Poland working with local pastors, leaders, youth, and the business community to make inroads for the gospel and help at-risk Polish youth find success in school and life.
• Pregnancy Resource CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal partnership through annual donation drive to provide support and care to pregnant women in need of health and pregnancy support in the Santa Cruz community.
• Gault Elementary SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership providing after-school Kids Club at Gault Elementary School for decades, offering fun, games, and Bible teaching while providing necessary after-school childcare for parents.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Churchome: Digital-first church emphasizing online participation and app-based community — comparable to SCBC's YouTube livestream arm and representative of the online-church competitive threat.

Broad incumbents

• Elevation Church: Multi-site evangelical megachurch with sophisticated digital production, YouTube-first distribution, and online campus — represents the scaled, digitally native direction SCBC could evolve toward.
• Saddleback Church: Large California-based evangelical megachurch with a global missions footprint, small-group model, and broader resource base — illustrating a more scaled version of SCBC's ministry mix.

Direct peers

• Vintage Faith Church: Santa Cruz-based church targeting spiritually curious and unchurched populations with contemporary worship and community programs — directly overlaps with SCBC's "Hope for Everyone" positioning.
• Coastal Community Church: California coastal evangelical congregation with similar seeker-friendly approach, small-group structure, and family/youth ministry focus serving a comparable demographic.
• North Coast Church: Carlsbad/San Diego-area evangelical church known for its community group model — a structural approach highly comparable to SCBC's neighborhood-based community groups strategy.
• Shoreline Church: Monterey Bay-area evangelical church offering similar Sunday services, kids/youth programs, community groups, and outreach — competing for the same coastal California faith-seeking demographic.
• Twin Lakes Church: Large multi-site evangelical church in Santa Cruz County with comparable ministries (kids, youth, community groups, global missions) and overlapping target congregation in the same geography.

Others

• Pushpay: Digital giving platform used by SCBC; representative of the broader church-tech ecosystem whose tooling decisions shape SCBC's donation, member management, and digital engagement capabilities.

Regional players

• Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County: Santa Cruz County's largest food distributor and likely the organization SCBC's pantry is benchmarked against; comparable regional social-services scale and a natural coordination/cannibalization partner for SCBC's outreach.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCNsT5P-W_onJ4a77xpobWtg
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/santa-cruz-bible-church

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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