Our Story

Grace Baptist Church began as Olde Mount Vernon Baptist Church (OMV) in 1992. OMV was started as a satellite church of Mount Vernon Baptist Church, which had moved from the Durant Road location in Raleigh to its current location on Falls of Neuse Road. Mount Vernon allowed OMV to use its former building as its location to gather for worship.

Beginning in 2006, the congregation voted to relocate from its Durant Road location and acquire its own building and property in the Wake Forest/Rolesville area. After a few years with no success and few prospects, 2008 proved to be a year of great changes for OMV. In the summer of 2008, a sister church in downtown Wake Forest freely and graciously gifted to OMV its church building, property, church van, and other assets. This came after all other relocation options seemed to be exhausted without any success. The church voted unanimously to accept the gift and relocate to downtown Wake Forest, changing its name to Grace Baptist Church in the process.

 After a lengthy process of making fire-safety modifications to the current building, Grace Baptist Church held its first worship service there in October of 2010. We are excited about ministering the gospel to the Wake Forest community and making disciples of Jesus. 

For more than a decade now we have proclaimed Christ in Wake Forest and around the world. Our church has developed a tradition of Scripture-saturated worship in which we preach through whole books of the Bible to see how all of the Scriptures testify to Christ. We regularly engage in ministry in our community and send members to preach Christ throughout the world. We disciple one another both formally and informally to “present every person fully mature in Christ” (Col. 1:28).

We live in challenging times, but we are moving forward with the gospel of Jesus Christ, confident that he will be at work in Wake Forest and around the world until Christ returns to make all things right. If you are looking for a church in Wake Forest in which you can join in Christ’s work in the world, we hope you will visit us and consider partnering with us!