Sozo Ministries

What Sozo Ministries does

Sozo Ministries, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) Christian missionary organization founded in 2015 and headquartered in Crane, Texas, with international regional offices in Mbale City, Uganda and Juja, Nairobi, Kenya, and a recently launched India operation. The organization focuses on evangelism, discipleship, leadership development, and church planting, operating a Network of Churches model that provides spiritual covering, apostolic oversight, ministry licensing, ordination opportunities, and training to affiliated churches. As of early 2025, the network encompasses 37 churches across four nations, with documented cumulative outcomes of 31,511 salvations, 6,305 healings, and 1,861 deliverances since 2018.

Sozo's core offerings are services rather than technology products: short-term mission trips (10+ days), structured internships (2-month summer, 9-month student, 1-year missionary exploration), and full-time missionary appointments, alongside annual events such as the Elders' Conference and the Supernatural Ministry Conference. Digital touchpoints consist of a Tithely-hosted website and mobile app for information access and donations, a sermon/media library with over 50 archived messages, and standard communication tools (WhatsApp, Zoom, YouTube). There are no proprietary technology systems, patents, or AI/ML components disclosed.

The revenue model is entirely donation-based. The flagship program is the Kingdom Xpansion Coalition, a recurring monthly giving initiative seeking 500 financial partners at $10 per month to add $60,000 annually to the operating budget. All missionaries are self-supported through personal networks of friends, family, and dedicated partners, with giving accepted via Tithe.ly, PayPal, Zelle, text giving, and the mobile app. The organization employs approximately 5 people in the United States and coordinates with a broader network of roughly 40 missionaries and team members globally.

Name

Sozo Ministries

Legal name

Sozo Ministries, Inc.

Website

https://sozoministries.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Sozo Ministries is a 501(c)(3) Christian missionary organization founded in 2015 that plants and oversees churches across the US, Uganda, Kenya, and India, providing apostolic oversight, missionary internships, evangelism events, and training through a network of 37 churches.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious and Missionary Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

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

Keywords

• Christian missionary services
• Church planting network
• Leadership development
• Evangelism ministry
• Discipleship training

Headquarters

HQ city

Crane

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Kingdom Xpansion Coalition: Monthly subscription-based donation program where financial partners contribute $10 per month. The coalition aims to raise $60,000 annually from at least 500 partners to support the Sozo Ministries annual budget.
2. Missionary Support: All Sozo Ministries missionaries are self-supported and depend on financial support from friends, family members, and dedicated ministry partners. Donors can make one-time or recurring donations to specific missionaries through Tithe.ly.
3. General Donations: One-time and recurring donations accepted through online giving via Tithe.ly platform, text giving (text 'GIVE' to 844.770.1751), and mobile church app. All donations are tax-deductible as Sozo Ministries is a registered 501(c)3 organization.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Sozo Ministries, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) Christian missionary nonprofit that conducts evangelism, discipleship, leadership development, and church planting in the United States, Uganda, Kenya, and India. It deploys short-term mission teams, missionary interns, and full-time missionaries, supports a Network of Churches through apostolic oversight, and runs Global Outreach Crusades along with the recurring Kingdom Xpansion Coalition donor program.

Product overview

Sozo Ministries operates as a Christian missionary organization offering a suite of ministry programs and services. The core platform includes a website and mobile app for information access and donations. The organization provides missionary opportunities through short-term mission teams (10+ days), structured internship programs (2-month summer, 9-month student, and 1-year exploration), and full-time missionary appointments. Additional services include a sermon media library with archived teachings, the Kingdom Xpansion Coalition monthly giving program, and the Network of Churches for spiritual covering and partnership. Annual events such as the Sozo Elders' Conference and Supernatural Ministry Conference provide concentrated training and fellowship opportunities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Short-Term Mission Teams
• Missionary Internship Program
• Full-Time Missionary Appointment
• Global Outreach Crusades
• Network of Churches
• Kingdom Xpansion Coalition
• Sozo Ministries Mobile App

Quantifiable outcome

• 31,511 salvations from January 2018 to March 2025
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Global AwakeningcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSozo Ministries joined the Apostolic Network of Global Awakening under Dr. Randy Clark in 2016. International overseer Scott Ingram was ordained by Global Awakening in 2019. This partnership provides apostolic network affiliation and ordination for leadership.
• Global OutreachcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGlobal Outreach is a Ugandan missionary alliance under Pastor Wilberforce Okumu, seeking to make Uganda a missionary-sending nation and spread the gospel along the Nile River basin. Sozo participates in their annual missions and conferences.
• EquipNationscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEquipNations is a close ministry partner working together across East Africa and beyond. Founder Kim Cleveland serves on Sozo Ministries' international board of elders. Teams from EquipNations conduct leadership summits with Sozo.
• Global School of Supernatural MinistryminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTeams from the Global School of Supernatural Ministry visited Jinja and Mbale, Uganda in 2023 for ministry collaboration and training.
• Isaiah 61 MissionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIsaiah 61 Mission hosted a three-day disciple-making conference in Nakaloke, Uganda in August 2023. Sozo's John Mwangi and Scott Ingram served as session speakers.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Operation Mobilisation: Global evangelical mission agency mobilizing short-term teams, internships (e.g., OM Ships, Mercy Teams), and church-planting missionaries across more than 110 countries. Highly comparable to Sozo's church planting, missions trips, and intern-to-missionary progression model, especially in East Africa and South Asia.
• YWAM (Youth With A Mission): Global, decentralized Christian missionary organization running short-term mission teams (DTS), internships, and church planting across 180+ countries. Comparable to Sozo because of its focus on missionary training pipelines and field church planting, though it operates at a vastly larger scale and broader scope.
• Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ): U.S.-headquartered evangelical ministry with international missionary sending, leadership development, and donation-supported staff model. Comparable to Sozo through its self-funded missionary structure, U.S.-based donations funding global field operations, and emphasis on discipleship and leadership training.
• Samaritan's Purse: Large evangelical relief and missions organization running disaster response, church planting support, and missionary deployment globally. Comparable to Sozo in evangelical theology, donor-funded self-supported missionary model, and church planting in developing countries, but operates at a much larger scale.

Emerging players

• Frontier Ventures (formerly U.S. Center for World Mission): Missionary mobilization organization focused on frontier people groups, church planting movements, and India engagement. Comparable to Sozo's India expansion and church planting emphasis, though it focuses more on unreached people groups than general evangelical crusades.

Direct peers

• Christ for All Nations (CfAN): Evangelistic crusade organization founded by Reinhard Bonnke, holding mass outreach events across Africa and India with documented large-scale salvation and healing outcomes. Closely comparable to Sozo's Global Outreach crusades, healing/deliverance reporting, and East Africa + India focus.
• Global Awakening: Apostolic network under Dr. Randy Clark that ordains and provides oversight for missionaries and ministry leaders, including Sozo's Scott Ingram. Directly comparable because it is the apostolic covering Sozo sits under, shares the supernatural ministry focus (healing, deliverance), and runs training schools and conferences.
• EquipNations: Mission-focused ministry partnering with Sozo across East Africa, with its founder serving on Sozo's board of elders. Comparable because of overlapping East African leadership summits, shared missions training, and joint church development work in the same geographies.
• Iris Global: Missionary sending organization and church planting network founded by Heidi and Rolland Baker, with deep operations in East Africa (especially Mozambique) and India. Comparable to Sozo through its emphasis on church planting among the poor, supernatural ministry, and missions training in the same geographies.
• Adventures in Missions: Short-term mission trip and missions discipleship organization (e.g., The World Race), recruiting young adults into missionary service and supporting long-term placement. Comparable to Sozo's 10+ day mission teams, 9-month student internship, and 1-year missionary exploration pathways.

Market position

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@sozoministriesinc
• Facebookfacebook.com/sozoministriesinc
• Instagraminstragram.com/sozoministries
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sozo-ministries

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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