Pleasant Grove Baptist on Lake Wheeler Road has church, preschool, cemetery

At 10005 Lake Wheeler Road, Fuquay-Varina, sits Pleasant Grove Baptist Church.

Like the two previous Baptist churches profiled at this blog, Pleasant Grove has a multi-building/facility campus. And across Lake Wheeler Road, there is a modest cemetery the church maintains. PGBC also is home to Mothers Morning Out Preschool, which serves youngsters in six age levels, beginning with infants through kindergarten. 

There appeared to be a game in progress on the church’s ball diamond while I was there for my shoot, so I limited my photo of that facility (photo elsewhere in this post) to one from afar. 

The church website has a separate page for its cemetery, at which it respectfully conveys that the graveyard “tells the stories of families and generations.”

Incidentally, it is 5.7 miles from the church campus to downtown Fuquay-Varina.   

To see a full gallery of pictures from my shoot here, follow the link in this sentence. 

 

Two more views of the church (above and below) and of the fellowship hall (second, third and fourth photos below). 

 

The Family Life Center (above), with the church to the left, houses the gymnasium. A closeup of its front doors appears below. 

Above: A side view of the fellowship hall, which leads into the church offices in the building at the far end.

I don't know this for a fact, but the three white crosses above on church property near Lake Wheeler Road (background) might be connected to the Crosses of Mercy project, under the auspices of Cast Thy Bread Inc., launched in 1984 by the Rev. Bernard Coffindaffer of West Virginia. Many copies of these crosses have emerged on church properties along thoroughfares, mostly in the Southeast, as a testament to faith and Christian salvation. Curiously, the etched stone in front of the crosses (first photo below) does not explain the crosses; it explains the dedication of the paved parking lot just behind where I was standing when I took this picture.  

  

Above and first four photos below: Different shots of the PGBC Cemetery.

The ball diamond (above) and the playground in the first five photos below.

Church identification signs along Lake Wheeler Road near the west access point (above) and along Hilltop Needmore Road at the south access point (below).