Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Roanoke, VA 24018. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Pleasant Grove’s mission is to seek the salvation of the unsaved by fulfilling the Great Commission while assisting with the spiritual growth and maturity of every believer through discipleship, teaching, preaching, and exhorting from the word of God.
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, affectionally called “The Little White Church on the side of the road, where God hears and answers prayers”, was founded in 1912 in “Brackettown” in the Oak Grove area of Roanoke County, Virginia.
Serving since 1912
Roanoke, VA, 24018Service times
- Sunday 11am · Worship Service
Phone: (540) 774-1343 · Website: http://www.pgbcroanoke.org/
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,420 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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Latest from Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Roanoke's YouTube channel: Sunday, September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 30.9%
- Depression: 23.3%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
- Windsor Hills Church — 0.3 mi away
- MCC of the Blue Ridge — 0.3 mi away
- Valley Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ the King Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church & Preschool — 0.5 mi away
- Oak Grove Church of the Brethren — 0.5 mi away
- Windsor Church — 0.9 mi away
- Covenant Church — 1 mi away
- Garst Mill Presbyterian Church — 1.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Windsor Hills Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Colonial Avenue Baptish Church — 1.9 mi away
- Rosalind Hills Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Cave Spring Baptist Church — 2 mi away