PLEASANT GARDEN BAPTIST CHURCH

What PLEASANT GARDEN BAPTIST CHURCH does

Pleasant Garden Baptist Church (PGBC) is a Southern Baptist congregation headquartered at 1415 Neelley Road in Pleasant Garden, North Carolina, operating as an independent nonprofit led by Lead Pastor Dr. Robert Hefner since 2018. The church delivers in-person worship services (Traditional at 8:15am and Contemporary at 11:00am Sundays) plus a broad multi-generational ministry portfolio spanning preschool (Wee-Shine, MOMco), children (AWANA, STL Motions, Camp SONshine, WoW), student (middle/high school and college), adult (Connect Groups, D-Groups, Discipleship Pathway), senior adult, special needs, recreation (Upward Basketball), and grief support (GriefShare).

Its underlying technology consists of off-the-shelf third-party platforms: FaithConnector for the pgbc.com website, Church Center (by Planning Center) for member management, online giving, and the iOS/Android mobile app, and Vimeo for live and recorded service streaming (993+ archived videos). The church publishes a weekly newsletter (The Garden News) and a sermon podcast. There is no proprietary technology stack; all digital tools are commercial SaaS products common to mid-sized SBC congregations.

The business model is voluntary donations: members contribute tithes and offerings that fund staff salaries, facilities, local ministries, and mission partnerships (including Southern Baptist Cooperative Program allocations and direct partnerships in Greensboro, NYC, Georgia, Honduras, and Togo). Revenue mechanics are non-transactional and not publicly disclosed. PGBC also engages in church multiplication, having planted Growing Faith Church in 2025 with charter members drawn from its own ministries.

Name

PLEASANT GARDEN BAPTIST CHURCH

Legal name

Pleasant Garden Baptist Church

Website

https://pgbc.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Pleasant Garden Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist congregation in Pleasant Garden, North Carolina, serving local community members across all life stages through worship, discipleship, children's and student ministries, recreation programs, and global missions partnerships funded by voluntary member donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

Faith-Based Healthcare Ministries (Hospitals, Clinics, Medical Missions) (BPAGAJAH)

Keywords

• Church services
• Religious education
• Community worship
• Children's ministry
• Pastoral services

Headquarters

HQ city

Pleasant Garden

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: Voluntary financial contributions from congregation members including tithes (10% of income as biblical standard) and offerings. Supports local ministries, staff salaries, facilities, and mission work.

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Pleasant Garden Baptist Church operates as a Southern Baptist congregation providing weekly worship services, age-specific discipleship ministries (children, students, adults), small group Bible studies, and community outreach programs from its Pleasant Garden, North Carolina campus. The church extends engagement beyond the physical campus through online sermon streaming, a mobile app for member management, and a digital content library.

Product overview

Pleasant Garden Baptist Church operates as a traditional Baptist congregation offering a unified set of ministry programs and digital services rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core offering consists of in-person worship services (Traditional at 8:15am and Contemporary at 11:00am on Sundays) supported by Connect Groups (Sunday School) and Wednesday programming including AWANA for children. The church supplements these with seasonal programs like WoW vacation Bible school, Camp SONshine, and Upward basketball. Digital services include The Garden News newsletter, PGBC Podcast, Online Giving via Church Center, a mobile app, and video streaming via Vimeo. The Discipleship Pathway framework (Discover, Develop, Disciple, Duplicate, Deploy) provides structure for spiritual growth, culminating in multiplication through the church plant Growing Faith Church launched in 2025. All programs serve the unified mission of putting Jesus at the center and spreading the gospel locally and globally.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sunday Worship Services

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

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 core and major.

• Growing Faith ChurchcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025PGBC planted Growing Faith Church in 2025. Nearly every charter member had been part of key ministry areas like children's ministry or worship ministry at PGBC, demonstrating a multiplication strategy for kingdom expansion.
• Southern Baptist Convention (Cooperative Program)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPGBC commits a portion of its budget to the Southern Baptist Convention's Cooperative Program (CP), which supports church planting, missionaries, and training in the US and around the world. This ensures part of every dollar given at PGBC takes the gospel globally.
• Missions Organizations and MissionariesmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPGBC partners with various missions organizations and missionaries beyond the Southern Baptist Cooperative Program. They also invest in local to global partnerships in Greensboro, NYC, Georgia, Honduras, and Togo.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Bayside Church: Large multi-site church in Granite Bay, CA with a unified family ministry model. Comparable in operating multi-generational programming (kids, students, adults) under one organizational umbrella.
• Fellowship Church: Large Southern Baptist-affiliated church in Grapevine, TX. Comparable in denomination, digital-first member engagement strategy, and small-group-driven ministry model.
• Saddleback Church: Large Southern Baptist church in Lake Forest, CA known for its Purpose-Driven discipleship framework. Comparable in denomination and structured small-group/d discipleship pathways analogous to PGBC's Discover-Develop-Disciple-Duplicate-Deploy model.
• North Point Community Church: Large non-denominational church in Atlanta, GA recognized for its strategy-driven ministry model and church-planting network (North Point Ministries). Comparable in emphasis on systems-driven discipleship and multiplication strategy.
• Church of the Highlands: Large multi-site Southern Baptist-affiliated church based in Alabama. Comparable in denomination, discipleship-driven model, and church-planting orientation through the ARC network.
• Elevation Church: Large NC-based multi-site church (Charlotte) affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Comparable in denomination, regional footprint, and emphasis on digital streaming and modern worship production.

Others

• Southern Baptist Convention: The parent denominational network through which PGBC funds the Cooperative Program supporting missionaries and church planting. Not a direct competitor, but the umbrella body defining PGBC's affiliation, training pipelines, and mission partnerships.
• Planning Center (Church Center): SaaS provider of church management software whose Church Center app powers PGBC's member login, online giving, event registration, and directory. A technology ecosystem partner rather than a competitor.
• Lifeway Christian Resources: SBC-affiliated publishing, curriculum, and research arm. Provides vacation Bible school, Bible study, and training content that PGBC's programs (WOW, AWANA-adjacent, Connect Groups) draw on as a vendor/partner.

Direct peers

• Mud Creek Baptist Church: Mid-size Southern Baptist church in Hendersonville, NC where Dr. Robert Hefner served for nearly 18 years before joining PGBC. Directly comparable in denomination, size band, congregational model, and ministry structure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubevimeo.com/pgbc
• Instagraminstagram.com/pgbc_nc/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pleasant-garden-baptist-church

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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