Park Road Baptist Church

What Park Road Baptist Church does

Park Road Baptist Church is a progressive Baptist congregation founded in 1950 in South Charlotte, North Carolina, serving approximately 500 members with average Sunday worship attendance of about 160. The church offers a unified portfolio of faith-based programs including Sunday worship services (in-person and online streaming), Connection Groups (Sunday School) for adults, youth, and children, youth and children's ministries, sermon podcasts, and a regularly published blog titled 'Still Christian for a Reason.' Community-facing programs include the Room In The Inn homeless hospitality initiative (twice-monthly winter operations), First Wednesday family dinners, and mission partnerships. The church is led by Co-Pastors Russ and Amy Jacks Dean, with Caleb Foust as Associate Pastor for Children, Youth, and Families and JD McDonald as Minister of Children, Youth, and Families; the organization has approximately 10 employees.

The church's business model is non-commercial: revenue is generated entirely through voluntary tithes and offerings from congregation members, collected via in-service giving, online giving, and text-to-give channels. All worship services are free and open to the public; First Wednesday dinners carry a nominal charge of $8 per adult and $5 per child. There are three denominational affiliations (Alliance of Baptists, United Baptist Association, Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America), adopted in 2003 after withdrawing from the Southern Baptist Convention in 2007. The church operates from a single owned campus at 3900 Park Road that also hosts two on-campus partner organizations — Park Road Child Development Center (a five-star early childhood education program) and the Down Syndrome Association of Greater Charlotte — and maintains a 17-year partnership with Resurrection Baptist Church in Carlos Rojas, Cuba. There is no proprietary technology platform; digital outreach runs on standard third-party tools (Squarespace website and blog, YouTube, Facebook).

Name

Park Road Baptist Church

Legal name

Park Road Baptist Church

Website

https://parkroadbaptist.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1950

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Park Road Baptist Church is a progressive Baptist congregation founded in 1950 in South Charlotte, NC, serving about 500 members through worship, education, youth programs, and community outreach, funded entirely by voluntary tithes and offerings.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Services and Faith-Based Community

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Child Care Services (6244)

SIC

Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Places of Worship & Religious Facilities Operations (Cemeteries, Retreat Centers, Pilgrimage Sites) (BPAGAJAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Faith-Based Childcare Centers (EDACAAAN)

Keywords

• Religious worship services
• Bible study programs
• Youth ministry programs
• Community outreach
• Early childhood education

Headquarters

HQ city

Charlotte

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: Voluntary contributions from congregation members during worship services and through online giving, text-to-give, and traditional methods.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Park Road Baptist Church is a progressive Baptist congregation that delivers weekly worship services (in-person and online), Sunday School and Connection Groups for all ages, youth and children's ministry programs, a faith-focused blog and sermon podcast library, and community outreach initiatives including a homeless hospitality program (Room In The Inn) and an on-campus five-star-rated Child Development Center.

Product overview

Park Road Baptist Church is a progressive Baptist congregation in Charlotte, NC, offering a unified portfolio of faith-based programs and services centered around worship, education, and community outreach. The church's core offerings include Sunday worship services (in-person and online), Connection Groups/Sunday School for all ages, youth and children's ministries, a blog with commentary on faith and current events, sermon podcasts, and community service programs including Room In The Inn homeless hospitality and a Child Development Center. The church maintains denominational affiliations with Alliance of Baptists, United Baptist Association, and Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Worship Services Sunday morning worship services held at 11:00 AM, offered both in-person and online, featuring progressive theology with traditional, thoughtfully structured worship designed to provide a firm foundation for spiritual life. Open and free to the public.
• Connection Groups (Sunday School) Sunday morning classes for children, youth, and adults meeting at 9:45 AM, offering age-appropriate Bible study and fellowship opportunities including Abundant Grace, Babylon, and Prelude adult groups.
• Youth Ministry Programs for teenagers including Sunday School, Sunday Nights activities, Youth Fellowship on Wednesdays, and retreats, designed to help youth develop their own faith separate from their parents.
• Children's Ministry Programs for children including Sunday School (Power Express curriculum), nursery care, worship participation, First Wednesdays dinner and Vespers, and Camp Prism summer camp.
• Sermons and Podcasts Audio and video recordings of Sunday sermons available for online listening and download.
• Still Christian for a Reason Blog Church blog featuring thoughts and commentary on topics ranging from faith, current events, and life at Park Road, with RSS subscription available.
• Room In The Inn Homeless Hospitality Program Homeless hospitality program offering warm meals, beds, showers, and laundry services twice monthly during winter for neighbors experiencing homelessness.
• Park Road Child Development Center Five-star rated childcare facility operated as a campus partner of Park Road Baptist Church, providing early childhood education and care services to the community.

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Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• Alliance of BaptistscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2004Denominational affiliation adopted in 2003 to better represent the diversity of thought and inclusive, progressive theology of Park Road Baptist Church.
• Resurrection Baptist Church (Carlos Rojas, Cuba)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 200417-year partnership formalizing in 2004 with annual visits since 2006. Partnership includes supporting the church's work in Carlos Rojas, Cuba through funds from annual budget, and cross-cultural relationship building.
• United Baptist AssociationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2003Denominational affiliation representing the church's commitment to Baptist heritage of free and faithful expression.
• Baptist Peace Fellowship of North AmericacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2003Denominational affiliation reflecting the church's commitment to peace, social justice, and Baptist peace traditions.
• Park Road Child Development CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOn-campus child development center operating in the church facilities, providing early childhood education services to the community.
• Down Syndrome Association of Greater CharlotteminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCampus partner occupying office space in Milford Chapel Building. Non-profit family support organization serving individuals with Down syndrome and their families across 10 NC and 2 SC counties.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Highland Baptist Church: A progressive Baptist congregation in Louisville, KY affiliated with the Alliance of Baptists and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, sharing Park Road's open theological culture and congregational scale profile.
• Myers Park Baptist Church: A progressive Baptist congregation in Charlotte, NC with a similar open-and-affirming, socially engaged identity and comparable denominational affiliation profile; the closest geographic and theological peer to Park Road Baptist Church.
• Providence Baptist Church: A Baptist congregation in Charlotte, NC with similar local-mission orientation and community-engagement programs; a directly comparable local Baptist peer for member-pool and program benchmarking.
• Pullen Memorial Baptist Church: A progressive, open-and-affirming Baptist congregation in Raleigh, NC affiliated with the Alliance of Baptists and American Baptist Churches USA, sharing Park Road's progressive theological identity and Baptist heritage outside the SBC.
• Wilshire Baptist Church: A prominent open-and-affirming progressive Baptist church in Dallas, TX with a similar social-justice orientation and comparable size; widely cited as a model for progressive Baptist congregational identity akin to Park Road.
• Myers Park Presbyterian Church: A progressive mainline Protestant congregation in the Charlotte market with comparable progressive theology, community engagement programming, and member demographics; a directly comparable Charlotte peer across the denominational line.
• University Baptist Church: A historic progressive Baptist congregation in Austin, TX affiliated with the Alliance of Baptists, with a comparable open-and-affirming stance, intellectual theological culture, and congregational scale to Park Road.

Broad incumbents

• The Riverside Church: A large, historic progressive Protestant congregation in New York City known for social-justice leadership; comparable progressive identity but operates at substantially greater scale and broader programmatic footprint than Park Road.
• Judson Memorial Church: A historic progressive Baptist-affiliated congregation in New York City with a strong social-justice and arts programming identity; comparable progressive DNA but larger and more institutionally complex than Park Road.
• First Baptist Church of Charlotte: A much larger historic Baptist congregation in the Charlotte urban core with broader programmatic reach and significantly greater resources; serves as a broad incumbent benchmark rather than a direct like-for-like competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC8BnSpnHgKNtKfLTVn5bJ8A
• Facebookfacebook.com/parkroadbaptistchurch
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/park-road-baptist-church

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries1 record

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