Grace Reformed Baptist Church

What Grace Reformed Baptist Church does

Grace Reformed Baptist Church (GRBC) is an independent, autonomous 501(c)(3) Baptist congregation headquartered at 939 S. Third Street in Mebane, North Carolina, serving the local Mebane community and surrounding Alamance County since 1963. The church operates a traditional worship-based service model, with Sunday School at 9:30 AM and worship services at 11:00 AM and 5:30 PM, supplemented by Wednesday prayer meetings and nine small-group nodes distributed across Mebane, Burlington, Graham, Hillsborough, Durham, and Chapel Hill. Congregation members and the broader community are also served through age-segmented ministries (children, youth, college & career, women, seniors), ESL classes, a pregnancy support program (Worthy), and a ministerial training apprenticeship.

The organization is supported entirely through voluntary tithes and offerings, with online giving processed via PushPay. Its technology footprint is modest and serves a distribution rather than product function: YouTube live streaming (GRBC Mebane channel) and a dedicated audio stream at media.grbc.net broadcast services to members providentially unable to attend in person, and a content library (sermon audio/video, Equip Classes curriculum, recommended reading list, church constitution) is maintained on grbc.net. No proprietary software, API, or AI product is offered.

GRBC is governed by a plurality of five elders/pastors — Nathan Allen, Stephen Byrd, Stu Johnston, Jones Ndzi, and Kent Thompson — supported by a Church Office Administrator and broader staff. The church formally adopted the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith in 1986 and has historically planted daughter congregations in Roanoke, VA; Rocky Mount, NC; and Bluefield, WV. It sponsors a global missionary presence across five continents and hosts the biennial Southeastern Reformed Baptist Family Conference. As a non-profit religious organization, GRBC is not equity-backed and discloses no revenue figures.

Name

Grace Reformed Baptist Church

Legal name

Grace Reformed Baptist Church of Mebane

Website

https://grbc.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

1963

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Grace Reformed Baptist Church is an independent 501(c)(3) Reformed Baptist congregation in Mebane, NC, serving local and global communities through worship, discipleship, age-segmented ministries, church planting, and missions since 1963.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious 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 industry

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

Keywords

• Religious worship services
• Biblical preaching ministry
• Community outreach programs
• Theological education training
• Church planting missions

Headquarters

HQ city

Mebane

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: Traditional church funding through voluntary tithes and offerings collected during worship services. Online giving available via PushPay (pushpay.com/g/grbcnc).

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Grace Reformed Baptist Church is a 501(c)(3) Reformed Baptist congregation in Mebane, North Carolina, that offers Sunday worship services, expository preaching, Bible study, and a comprehensive slate of age-targeted ministries (children, youth, college, women, men, seniors). It also runs small groups, pastoral counseling, a diaconal benevolence ministry, and supports church planting efforts domestically and abroad through prayer and financial giving.

Product overview

Grace Reformed Baptist Church offers a collection of spiritual and community ministry programs rather than a unified software product. The church provides worship services (Sunday School, morning and evening worship, prayer meetings), educational programs (Equip Classes, Sunday School for all ages, Bible studies), youth and children's ministries, small groups, missions programs (global and local), ministerial training, ESL ministry, and support services such as the Worthy Pregnancy Support mentorship program. These are ministry programs aimed at spiritual growth and community service, not technology products or SaaS offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sunday Worship Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Established in 1963, serving Mebane community for over 60 years
• +2 more outcomes

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles7 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Campus Outreach at Elon UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe church has partnered with Campus Outreach at Elon University. Many students from Elon attend Grace in connection with this campus ministry and participate in the adopt-a-student program.
• Southeastern Baptist Theological SeminarycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocated less than an hour from SEBTS in Wake Forest. GRBC is in friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention and has developed a strong partnership with Southeastern. Some church members attend SEBTS as well as other seminaries including Reformed Theological Seminary, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
• Hawfields Presbyterian HomeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTwo GRBC pastors serve as part-time chaplains at Hawfields. Pastor Fortner leads a Bible study on Saturday afternoons, and Pastor Johnston leads a worship service every Friday morning and visits residents weekly.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves13 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• North Point Community Church: Large evangelical church known for leadership development and church multiplication. Relevant as a broader playbook reference for GRBC's ministerial training and church planting ambitions.
• McLean Bible Church: Large evangelical church with extensive global missions and an established discipleship/hospitality playbook. Comparable missions footprint and similar small-group structure, but on a much larger scale.

Others

• Acts 29: Church planting network with Reformed Baptist and evangelical roots. Provides an ecosystem reference for GRBC's own church-planting trajectory and a peer for partner churches.
• Hawfields Presbyterian Home: Faith-based elder care facility in Mebane where two GRBC pastors serve as part-time chaplains. A close ministry partner with overlapping senior outreach and pastoral care scope.
• Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary: GRBC's core theological education partner located less than an hour away. Provides the ministerial training pipeline that feeds GRBC's ministerial apprentice program and partner churches.

Direct peers

• Frontline Church (Jackson, MS): Reformed Baptist church in the Deep South with global missions, church planting, and theological seriousness similar to GRBC. Connects through shared Southern Baptist Convention cooperative relationships.
• The Summit Church: Large Reformed-influenced evangelical church in the Durham-Raleigh NC area with global missions and church-planting DNA. Operates in the same regional market and theological neighborhood as GRBC, making it the most direct comparable.
• Bethlehem Baptist Church (Minneapolis, MN): Prominent Reformed Baptist church with strong expository preaching, theological training, and missions emphasis. Shares GRBC's 1689 Confession heritage and disciple-making philosophy.
• Immanuel Baptist Church (Louisville, KY): Reformed Baptist congregation in Louisville where GRBC elder Dr. Jones Ndzi previously served. Similar 1689 Confession alignment and pastoral training pipeline make it a closely comparable ministry model.

Regional players

• Cross Church (Fayetteville, NC): Large multi-site evangelical church in North Carolina with church planting and disciple-making emphasis. Comparable in regional positioning and SBC affiliation, though on a larger scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/GRBCMebane/live
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/grace-reformed-baptist-church

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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