Wayside Baptist Church
Wayside Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 712 Canal Drive in Chesapeake, VA 23323. It is one of 347 churches in Chesapeake, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our church mission is “A Church With A Compassion For God’s Great Commission.” We sincerely desire to reach our community with the love of Jesus Christ!
Wayside Baptist Church was founded July 21, 1985 with 45 members and met in some members homes until they could rent the Alsop School building.
Serving since 1985
712 Canal Drive, Chesapeake, VA, 23323Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · School Church services
- Sunday 6:30pm · School Church services
Phone: (757) 485-2127 · Website: http://www.waysidebaptist.net/
Wayside Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Wayside Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.9%
- Social Isolation: 33.6%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (1.6–17.8%)
- Depression: 23.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.3%
- Food Insecurity: 15.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Chesapeake city is served by 180 churches — about one congregation for every 1,385 residents.
Churches near Wayside Baptist Church
- Fullness Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Alive Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Redemption Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Covenant Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- NewGWC — 0.4 mi away
- Broadmoor Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God In Christ First Jur Va — 0.5 mi away
- Joyous House Church — 0.5 mi away
- Philadelphia Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- New Fellowship Deliverance Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Gilmerton — 0.8 mi away
- Geneva Park Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Alpha & Omega Baptist Fellowship — 0.9 mi away
- Brent Lox Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Grace Entwined Ministries — 1.2 mi away
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