Vintage Faith Church

What Vintage Faith Church does

Vintage Faith Church is a non-profit Christian congregation founded in 2004 in Santa Cruz, California, by Dan Kimball following a young adult ministry that had grown to over 800 weekly attendees at Santa Cruz Bible Church. The church's stated mission is to introduce or re-introduce people to Jesus and form a worshiping community of missional theologians, with operational emphasis on theological depth, intergenerational community, and outward-facing service. Its product portfolio centers on two Sunday worship gatherings (9 AM and 11 AM) at 350 Mission Street, supplemented by age-segmented ministries: Vintage Kids (birth through 5th grade, including Awana Tuesday programming), Youth Ministry (6th-12th grade with midweek and Sunday programming), and a Young Adults ministry anchored at UCSC. Additional offerings include a year-round School of Theology with foundation classes, Summer Deep Dive intensives, and specialty courses; intergenerational community groups; men's and women's ministries; recovery support through Beloved Restoration; and The Abbey Coffee, Art & Music Lounge, a co-located coffeehouse opened in 2008 serving as both a missional outreach space and an adjacent operating subsidiary.

The business model is donation-funded rather than transactional: Vintage Faith Church generates no product or service revenue and operates entirely on voluntary tithes and offerings from congregation members, collected through one-time and recurring ACH via the Church Center App, text-to-give (888-616-2774), securities gifts, and mail donations. The Abbey coffeehouse provides a small diversified commercial revenue stream. Technology infrastructure is lightweight and entirely third-party, relying on the Church Center mobile application for community management, registrations, and giving, and on vintagefaith.online.church for live streaming and same-day replay of the 9 AM gathering. In 2025, the organization transitioned to a co-lead pastoral model under Adrian Moreno and Sara Bentley after founder Dan Kimball moved to a teaching-and-formation niche role concurrent with his appointment as VP and Associate Professor at Western Seminary. The organization is governed by a 7-member Leadership Council, operates from a single physical location co-shared with the merged First Presbyterian Church (2008), and serves a primarily Santa Cruz-area congregation with global streaming reach.

Name

Vintage Faith Church

Legal name

Vintage Faith Church

Website

https://vintagechurch.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Vintage Faith Church is a Santa Cruz, California non-profit Christian congregation founded in 2004 that offers Sunday worship, age-specific ministries (Kids, Youth, Young Adults), theological education, community groups, and the co-located Abbey Coffee, Art & Music Lounge. The church is funded entirely by voluntary tithes and serves its local community plus a global streaming audience.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious and Community Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Religious Organizations (81311), Religious Organizations (813110)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industries

Faith-Based Education & Formation (Seminaries, Religious Schools, Catechesis) (BPAGAJAD), Campus Spiritual & Religious Life (EDALAHAI)

Keywords

• Christian worship services
• Theological education
• Children and youth ministry
• Community small groups
• Religious donations and giving

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, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: Voluntary financial contributions from congregation members including one-time and recurring gifts, supporting church operations and mission
2. Online Giving: Digital giving through Church Center App for one-time and recurring gifts, text-to-give option (text to 888-616-2774), with 25 cent processing fee for ACH payments
3. Stock/Securities Gifts: Donations of appreciated securities allowing donors to avoid capital gains tax while receiving tax deduction
4. Mail Giving: Physical mail donations sent to 350 Mission St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 office

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Vintage Faith Church is a single Santa Cruz congregation that conducts two weekly Sunday worship gatherings featuring musical worship and biblical teaching, alongside age-specific ministries for children (birth through 5th grade), youth (6th-12th grade), and young adults, plus a year-round School of Theology, intergenerational community groups, and The Abbey Coffee, Art & Music Lounge as a public-facing missional venue. All ministries are offered free of charge, funded entirely by voluntary tithes and offerings from congregation members, with online giving, live streaming, and text-to-give available through the Church Center App.

Product overview

Vintage Faith Church is a single local congregation in Santa Cruz, CA, founded in 2004, offering a unified portfolio of in-person and digital ministry programs. The core offering is Sunday worship gatherings at 9 AM and 11 AM featuring musical worship and biblical teaching, supplemented by age-specific ministries: Vintage Kids (birth-5th grade, including Awana), Youth Ministry (6th-12th grade), and Young Adults Ministry (Wednesdays). The church operates a School of Theology with foundation classes, Summer Deep Dives, and theology forums; maintains Community Groups for small-group fellowship; and runs The Abbey Coffee, Art & Music Lounge as a missional community space. Digital offerings include online streaming of Sunday gatherings and online giving through the Church Center platform. The church transitioned to a co-leadership model in 2025 under Adrian Moreno and Sara Bentley.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Abbey Coffee, Art & Music Lounge: A missional coffee shop, art gallery, and music venue open to the public, serving UCSC students and locals with a space to hang out, study, hold meetings, and experience music and art events.

Products and services

• In-Person Sunday Gatherings Weekly worship gatherings featuring musical worship and biblical teaching held at 9 AM and 11 AM on Sundays at 350 Mission Street, Santa Cruz, with communion and approximately 75 minutes of programming; offered free of charge to attendees.
• Vintage Kids Ministry Children's ministry program for birth through 5th grade offering Sunday morning programming at both gatherings with songs, games, Bible lessons, and age-appropriate activities, plus a Tuesday Night Awana program (September–May) for ages 2 through 5th grade focused on Bible memorization and Gospel teaching.
• Youth Ministry Ministry for 6th through 12th grade students including Middle School Sundays (10:45 AM–12:30 PM), The Afterword high school gathering (11:00 AM–12:30 PM), and Tuesday Night Youth Midweek programming (6:15–9 PM) with worship, Bible teaching, and small groups.
• Young Adults Ministry Ministry for young adults meeting Wednesdays 7:00–9:00 PM in The Abbey, featuring Bible study, community building, and monthly events including gatherings at UCSC during the school year.
• School of Theology Year-round theological training program offering foundation classes (How to Study the Bible, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Gifts, Doctrine 101), Summer Deep Dive sessions, Theology Forums, and specialty classes on parenting, relationships, and personal finance.
• The Abbey Coffee, Art & Music Lounge A coffeehouse, art gallery, and music venue located at 350 Mission Street, Santa Cruz, opened in 2008 as a missional space where UCSC students and locals can gather, study, hold meetings, and experience music and art events; overseen by Vintage Faith Church leadership.
• Community Groups Small groups for fellowship, Bible study, and prayer, including intergenerational groups, men's, women's, young marrieds, and other life-stage communities that meet throughout the week.
• Online Sunday Gathering Streaming Live and on-demand streaming of the Sunday 9 AM gathering through vintagefaith.online.church, available for replay throughout the day, allowing remote congregation participation globally.
• Online Giving Digital giving platform enabling one-time and recurring gifts through the Church Center App, text-to-give (text to 888-616-2774 with a 25-cent ACH processing fee), and mail donations; also accepts stock and securities gifts as tax-deductible contributions supporting the church's mission and operations.

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Western SeminarycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Dan Kimball serves as VP and Associate Professor of Leadership and Theology at Western Seminary (San Jose campus). Church maintains connection through theological education partnership.
• First Presbyterian ChurchcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2008Merged with Vintage Faith Church in 2008. Shared vintage 1938 brick building at Mission Street. First Presbyterian was a small church with heart for mission that generously invited VFC to use their space in 2006, leading to formal merger.
• Foster the CitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoalition of churches with vision to have at least one foster family in every church until every child has a home. VFC has an advocate (Cassie Nickel) overseeing FTC volunteers. Model includes church advocate, resource families, support friends, and financial donors. At any given time approximately 250 children in Santa Cruz County need foster or adoptive homes.
• Second Harvest Food BankminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal food distribution site volunteer opportunity for VFC members to serve with food bank, supporting thousands of people struggling with food insecurity. Open to individuals and community groups.
• Wings Homeless AdvocacyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrganization supporting individuals working through challenges of homelessness to overcome barriers of employment and housing, and helping newly housed access resources.
• Shared AdventuresminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrganization bringing recreational and social experiences to those living with disabilities. VFC members can volunteer.
• CityServeX Santa CruzcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVFC provides relational connection and care helping people in need navigate social services. Contact Landon Baker for involvement.
• Pregnancy Resource CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupports local moms, babies, children, and families in need as they navigate pregnancy and family development.
• Beloved RestorationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRecovery meeting hosted at VFC for those affected by addiction in their family. Part of network of meetings gathering in local churches throughout the week.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Watermark Community Church: Dallas-based evangelical church with a similar 'community of disciples' identity, strong recovery ministries (parallel to Vintage Faith's Beloved Restoration), and theological-formation programming. Comparable mission-model peer at larger scale.
• North Point Community Church: Large Atlanta-area evangelical church known for Biblical teaching, strategic clarity, and influential online content. Comparable in theological depth and teaching-archive strategy, though operating at materially larger scale.
• Mosaic Church: Los Angeles-based evangelical church founded by Erwin McManus with a strong emphasis on creativity, the arts, and missional living — directly comparable to Vintage Faith's The Abbey arts-and-music outreach positioning.
• The Austin Stone Community Church: Austin-based evangelical church combining deep teaching, community groups, and missional focus with strong young-adult and theological-formation programming. Analogous theological depth and generational programming strategy.

Others

• Mount Hermon: Santa Cruz-area Christian camp and retreat organization that employs multiple Vintage Faith staff alumni (Donny Cobb, Katelynn Reynolds) and shares the regional Christian-organization ecosystem. Indirect ecosystem peer rather than direct congregational competitor.
• Western Seminary: San Jose-based evangelical seminary where Vintage Faith's founder is VP/Associate Professor and multiple staff hold or are pursuing degrees. Strategic education partner rather than a competing congregation, but highly relevant for theological-formation comparisons.

Direct peers

• Bayside Church: Large California-based evangelical multi-campus church with strong online teaching content and a comparable Bible-teaching, family-programming approach. Useful peer for understanding how a Santa-Cruz-style congregation scales across multiple sites.
• Twin Lakes Church: Evangelical congregation in Aptos, CA — Santa Cruz County neighbor — with comparable size, multigenerational ministries, and a similar mission-focused teaching model. Directly comparable as the church from which both current co-leads (Sara Bentley and Adrian Moreno) were recruited.
• Santa Cruz Bible Church: Santa Cruz-area evangelical Bible-teaching church where the Vintage Faith leadership team was previously involved in young-adult ministry and where Vintage Faith held its first 1.5 years of services. Closest geographic and theological peer.
• Christ Community Church: Santa Cruz-area evangelical congregation with overlapping geographic catchment and comparable mission-focused, intergenerational programming. Directly competes for the same local congregants.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/vfyoungadults
• Facebookfacebook.com/vfchurch
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/vintagechurch

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

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Investors

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