Wintersburg Presbyterian Church

What Wintersburg Presbyterian Church does

Wintersburg Presbyterian Church is a 501(c)(3) religious nonprofit founded in 1904 as a mission to Japanese farmers in the Huntington Beach area and currently headquartered at 2000 North Fairview Street, Santa Ana, California, where it has operated since 1965. The church serves a predominantly Asian-American congregation through bilingual English and Japanese (Nichigo) Sunday worship services, and operates an extensive age-graded ministry portfolio including Children's Ministry, Youth Ministry, College Ministry, Sports Ministry, Hula Ministry, Senior's Ministry, Men's Ministry (Journeymen), Women's Ministry (Haven), Community Groups, and a Worship Ministry. Its product set is service-based and human-relationship-driven: worship services, discipleship programming, fellowship, local outreach (e.g., Laundry Love Santa Ana), and a global missions program supporting missionaries in Japan, Spain, and Orange County through structured partnerships and short-term mission trips.

The organization's underlying operational technology consists of standard third-party church administration and content distribution platforms: the Church Center mobile app (iOS and Android) for giving, registrations, small groups, calendar, and connect cards; sermon audio distribution via Apple Podcast and Spotify; YouTube sermon series playlists; and ministry-specific Instagram accounts for youth, women's, men's, and college segments. No proprietary technology, APIs, or AI/ML capabilities are evident. Governance is by an elder board with covenant membership (age 18+) holding voting rights; the church is ECFA-accredited and uses external bookkeeping and accounting firms with annual budget review by elders and finance-committee oversight. The organization left the Presbyterian Church USA in 2014 to join ECO and subsequently joined the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) via the Presbytery of the Pacific Southwest in 2020.

Wintersburg's revenue model is recurring voluntary contributions (tithes and offerings) from congregants during Sunday services, supplemented by digital giving through Church Center. The church does not publicly disclose financials, has no parent company, and is not part of a for-profit corporate structure. Customer segments are organized horizontally across life stages (children, youth, college, adults, seniors) and language preference (English vs. Japanese-speaking), with a primary general-community segment open to all backgrounds and seekers. Its go-to-market is community- and relationship-driven rather than commercial, with digital content serving as top-of-funnel engagement and the covenant membership class functioning as a structured onboarding path into deeper commitment.

Name

Wintersburg Presbyterian Church

Legal name

Wintersburg Presbyterian Church

Website

https://wintersburg.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1904

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Wintersburg Presbyterian Church is a 120-year-old 501(c)(3) religious nonprofit in Santa Ana, California, serving a predominantly Asian-American congregation through bilingual English and Japanese Sunday worship services and an extensive age-graded ministry portfolio spanning children, youth, college, adults, and seniors, alongside a global missions program.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Services

NAICS

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

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro industry

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

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Religious & Faith-Based Organizations

Keywords

• Worship services
• Religious ministries
• Christian church
• Community fellowship
• Missions outreach

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa Ana

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: Congregants contribute tithes and offerings during Sunday worship services as a practice of Christian stewardship. Members are encouraged to give financially as part of their commitment to the church community.

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Wintersburg Presbyterian Church is a religious nonprofit that delivers weekly Sunday worship services in English and Japanese, age-specific ministries (Children's, Youth, College, Senior's), community groups, and a missions program with local outreach and global partnerships. It also provides digital content including sermon podcasts, YouTube series, livestreams, and an online giving platform through the Church Center app.

Product overview

Wintersburg Presbyterian Church is a predominantly Asian-American church in Orange County, California, offering a comprehensive portfolio of ministry programs and spiritual services. The church provides core worship services in both English and Japanese, alongside age-specific ministries including Children's Ministry (for 5th grade and younger), Youth Ministry (Middle School 6th-8th and High School 9th-12th), College Ministry, and Senior's Ministry. Specialized ministries include Sports Ministry (Wintersburg Sports Ministry/WSM), Hula Ministry, Worship Ministry, Women's Ministry (Haven), and Men's Ministry (Journeymen). The church supports Community Groups (small groups) and a robust Missions program encompassing Local Outreach (Laundry Love), Global Missions partnerships with missionaries in Japan, Spain, and Orange County, and Short-Term Mission trips. Digital offerings include sermon audio/series available via Apple Podcast and Spotify, and online giving through Church Center. The church celebrated its 120th Anniversary in November 2024.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sunday Worship Services
• Children's Ministry
• Youth Ministry
• College Ministry
• Wintersburg Sports Ministry (WSM)

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Laundry Love Santa AnacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal outreach partnership serving neighbors in Santa Ana by covering the cost of laundry and sharing the love of Christ in practical ways. Wintersburg volunteers help neighbors find machines, load quarters, and build relationships. Meets every third Thursday, 7:30-10PM.
• Olive CrestminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for Christmas toy drive through the Be the Miracle program, collecting gifts for teens who often receive fewest presents. Church is prayerfully exploring continued partnership opportunities in 2026.
• SEYO (Sports Educational Youth Organization)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWintersburg Sports Ministry participates in SEYO, an instructional basketball league focused on player development, sportsmanship, and team building. Used as opportunity to share the Good News of Jesus Christ. Winter Season: 2nd-8th grade; Spring Season: 8th-12th grade.
• Mustard Seed Network (MSN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGlobal mission partnership supporting Kevin & Nozomi West (Saitama) and Reo & Naomi Yoshida (Sendai) in Japan. Wests doing evangelism, coffee shop outreach, and church planting including Mustard Seed Christian Church - Saitama (March 2025). Yoshidas leading Mustard Seed Christian Church - Sendai since 2024.
• A3 & SIM USAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMission partnership supporting Emi & Sterling Miller serving at Kokubunji Baptist Church near Tokyo. Emi serves in missionary care (on study leave for MS in Marriage Family Therapy). Sterling works in mission leadership supporting missionaries and Japanese pastors.
• UTMOST MinistrycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupporting Samuel Kan and Airi Suzuki in Fukuoka, Japan. Ministry shares the gospel through music, film, and dance. Samuel is a Korean missionary and gospel singer with 20+ years of service. Church organizing STM trip to Fukuoka (July 28-August 7, 2026) supporting this ministry.
• Aguilas (Spain)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupporting David & Dina Siow in Spain sharing about Jesus through Iglesia Cristolica Evanglica Los Hechos and launching Conversational Club English school to reach secular population. School vision is to move people from conversation to commitment to community.
• Japanese Christian Fellowship Network (JCFN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupporting Setsu Shimizu as North America Director at JCFN, which supports Japanese in North America to become Christ's disciples and equips them to serve in Japan and beyond.
• The NavigatorscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupporting Dave & Kelly Sasaki who minister to college students for 37 years, overseeing about 80 Navigator staff on 14 campuses in California, Arizona, and Hawaii. Also supporting Aileen Wong at UC Irvine reaching international students.
• SEND InternationalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupporting Eriya & Becky Kato who are preparing to move from Japan to the LA area to reach diaspora Japanese and disciple them for impact in Japan.
• Reaching Japanese for Christ (RJC) NetworkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership through RJC SoCal Regional Conference (October 2-3) for encouragement, practical training, and connection with those sharing the gospel with Japanese people - one of the world's largest unreached people groups.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves14 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Saddleback Church: One of the largest evangelical churches in Orange County, headquartered in Lake Forest. Broader incumbent peer operating at much greater scale in the same region; useful for benchmarking reach, digital programming, and community engagement in the OC religious market.
• Eastside Christian Church: Long-established evangelical congregation in Anaheim, Orange County, with a multi-generational ministry portfolio. Comparable as a regional evangelical incumbent sharing the OC market and historical, community-anchored identity.
• Mariners Church: Large evangelical church in Irvine, California, with extensive multi-site programming and a regional footprint. Broad incumbent peer for understanding competitive dynamics in the Orange County evangelical landscape.

Direct peers

• The Church at Rocky Peak: EPC congregation in the greater Los Angeles region with a similar evangelical, discipleship-focused ministry model. Comparable as a same-denomination peer for governance, mission structure, and congregational programming benchmarks.
• Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles: Large Asian-American Baptist congregation with deep Los Angeles roots, multi-generational ministries, and active global missions program. Comparable in target demographic (Asian-American families), ministry breadth, and mission-driven identity.
• Mission Hills Church: Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) congregation in Southern California sharing the same denominational affiliation as Wintersburg. Directly comparable on theological identity, EPC governance structure, and regional evangelical positioning.
• Japanese American United Church: Japanese-American congregation in Southern California with a similar heritage-driven, multi-generational ministry model and bilingual worship focus. Most directly comparable peer given shared Japanese-American identity and community-anchored programming.
• Christ Community Church of Orange County: EPC-affiliated congregation in the Orange County area with comparable evangelical worship style and multi-generational ministries. Geographic and denominational peer for benchmarking attendance and program scope.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/playlist?list=PL9iFdy2jNeD9CuxvtRngmTEqciHCJDqqy
• Instagraminstagram.com/wpc.youthministry
• Facebookfacebook.com/wintersburgchurch
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wintersburg-presbyterian-church

Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles17 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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