Churches in Chesapeake

Active churches in Chesapeake

600 Happy Acres Road Chesapeake, VA 23323
1 sermon
1600 Elbow Road, Chesapeake
1 sermon
513 Johnstown Road, Chesapeake
1 sermon
1600 Laurel Ave, Chesapeake
1 sermon
712 Canal Drive Chesapeake, VA 23323
1 sermon
2430 Gum Road Chesapeake, VA 23321
1 sermon
414 S Battlefield Blvd, Chesapeake
1 sermon
1108 Kempsville Road Chesapeake, VA 23320
1 sermon
3252 Taylor Road, Chesapeake
1 sermon
333 Cedar Rd, Chesapeake
1 sermon
1832 Elbow Rd, Chesapeake
5 sermons
255 Great Bridge Blvd., Chesapeake
1 sermon
107 Kegman Road West, Chesapeake
1 sermon
1315 Greenbrier Pkwy, Chesapeake
122 sermons
1030 Jackson Ave Chesapeake, VA 23324
1 sermon
740 Great Bridge Blvd Chesapeake, VA 23320
1 sermon
1101 Chesapeake Ave Chesapeake, VA 23324
1 sermon
4320 Bruce Road, Chesapeake
1 sermon
508 Centerville Turnpike N, Chesapeake
1 sermon
521 Providence Road, Chesapeake
1 sermon
311 Kempsville Rd. Chesapeake, VA 23320
1 sermon
515 Innovation Drive, Chesapeake
1 sermon
700 Mount Pleasant Road, Chesapeake
3 sermons
900 Centerville Turnpike North, Chesapeake
5 sermons
2705 Taylor Road, Chesapeake
3 sermons
1735 Mt Pleasant Rd, Chesapeake
2 sermons
900 Centerville Turnpike North, Chesapeake
3 sermons
501 Kempsville Rd, Chesapeake
2 sermons
662 Fernwood Farms Rd, Chesapeake
1 sermon

Types of churches in Chesapeake

Chesapeake Non-Denominational Churches

Many congregations around Greenbrier, Western Branch, and along Battlefield Blvd offer contemporary worship, practical teaching, and active kids and student ministries. They attract commuters across Hampton Roads with casual environments, strong small groups, and multiple weekend services that fit busy schedules.

Traditional Liturgical Churches

In areas like Great Bridge and South Norfolk, longtime congregations reflect Tidewater history with classic sanctuaries, organ-led music, and structured liturgy. These churches serve multi-generational families seeking sacramental life, choirs, and a steady rhythm of worship amidst Chesapeake’s fast-growing suburbs.

Spanish-Language & Multicultural Churches

Chesapeake’s diversity shows up in bilingual and Spanish-language services, especially near Indian River and Deep Creek where immigrant and bilingual families are common. Expect multilingual worship, ESL classes, and community outreach that bridges cultures across apartments and subdivisions off Military Highway and Portsmouth Blvd.

Military-Friendly Churches in Chesapeake

With many Navy and Coast Guard households, churches near I-64, I-464, and the Western Branch corridor prioritize deployment support, childcare, and flexible small groups. They’re attuned to PCS cycles, offering mentorship for newly stationed families from Great Bridge to Grassfield and service projects that connect to base life across Hampton Roads.

Sermon clips from Chesapeake churches

65s
“You can't claim one thing and then do this. You can't claim to love God and mistreat someone. You can't claim to love God and start talking behind people's back. You can't claim to love God and not actively seek out how can I meet someone's needs or serve someone? They you can't do that because the love that comes from God that comes is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. It motivates us to love other people, even the ones we don't like. You know, you don't have to like everyone, but you do have to love them. And I've discovered mostly, you know, just in life in general that some of the people that that we have the hardest time with is it's often just a matter of personality. Our personalities are so different and so you just don't know how to navigate it and but nonetheless, we have to love them. We gotta love them. So here's the question that we should ask ourselves.”
66s
“``That that's what the world thinks. What else is there besides being successful, besides being famous, besides being the best? And whatever you do, the world thinks you win in life if you die with the most toys. If you die with the corner office, with your name in the history books, and the pride of life is so insidious that it can creep its way into the reason why we do anything, even into the reason why we serve the Lord in the church. The pride of life, the desire to be someone. As believers, we should know by now, we don't have to be someone. We just have to know someone. We just have to know Christ. And when we do, we find our significance in who he says we are, not who the world says that you are. You know, you don't have to try to impress people when you already know that the God and King of the universe loves you and knows your name.”
70s
“Now Jeremiah is fully aware of the balm he is referring to just as he is aware of the physician he is referring to, and he is suggesting that they all know it as well. Is the Lord not in Zion? He's referring to the same physician that the centurion went to because his servant was ill and very near death. He is referring to the great physician. And the balm is the peace that comes through faith by trusting and believing. The centurion put his faith on the line and the well-being of his servant. Perhaps perhaps it is easier to search out the physician when we are broken and empty.”
72s
“``After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair and so began to subdue him and his strength left him. Then she called Samson, the Philistines are upon you and he awoke from his sleep and he thought, here's that pride, I'll go out as before and shake myself free. One of the saddest phrases, verses right here in the bible, but he did not know that the lord had left him. Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, took him down to Gaza, same Gaza we we're talking about today, binding him with bronze shackles. They set him grinding grain in the prison but the hair on his head began to, everybody say that word. Grow. Grow again after it had been shaved. You know, I think it's important to point out the very thing that the enemy means to grieve you, to gouge you, to grind you, to gut you, God's gonna use to grow you. Don't miss it.”
53s
“God is not warning pagans. You're not warning the evil ones that we consider evil, the bad people, not warning them at all. He's warning us who are believers. Now, think about that. He's not warning those who don't believe. Why warn somebody who doesn't believe because they're not gonna believe what you say? They're gonna, wow. That's just for somebody else, not me. Well, in that case, they're right because it wasn't for them. It was for those who believed what god said. They didn't live like it but they believed it.”
61s
“But notice what verse 11 says. This is what I want us to look at today. It says, then the devil left him and angels came and attended him. I've said all that I've said to get right here to this moment. I want you to listen to this and then we'll get ready to pray. Listen, would angels need to come and attend to him when the devil has already left? Israel fails every test in the wilderness, but Jesus passes every test in the wilderness. He passed. Why does he need angels to attend to him when he won in the wilderness? Because even when you win, winning will wear you down.”
66s
“when we have confessed Jesus as the Messiah, the son of the living God, when we recognize and understand the significance of why we have to accept him and why we receive him because of the that he made paid on the cross for us that we receive him, then we receive the assignment that God has given us to go out and share with the world the message of the gospel, that Jesus is the messiah, that he's the son of the living God, and that he died on the cross and was resurrected on the third day. We go and communicate to that, to people all over the way that we have it in our our church, the way that we describe this and and there's, hopefully will, make it, help us to understand it a little bit more, is to lead others to become healthy, growing, multiplying followers of Jesus. Now the key to that is to become lead people to become followers of Jesus.”
85s
“I think one of the strongest verses of scripture in the Bible deals with unforgiveness. If I was asked to choose, pastor, what do you think is the strongest verse of scripture in the bible? I couldn't give you a list of three and this not be on it. The bible said if we forgive not men their trespasses, neither will our father in heaven forgive our trespasses. I don't know of a stronger verse. You better be careful before you say, I ain't forgiven that. I ain't forgiven them. Or maybe you don't say, you just don't do it. Hello? we forgive not men their trespasses neither will our father which is in heaven forgive us our trespasses. You know, we we preach a lot. You've heard it. I've heard it about there's only one unforgivable sin in the bible. That's blasphemy against the holy ghost. That's not true. It's not the only unforgivable sin. You refusing to forgive somebody is an unforgivable sin.”
72s
“Let's just call it what it is. When there's sin, murmuring, and complaining, when there's any other kind of sin in the church, it needs to be addressed, needs to be confessed. It's imperative that we keep the priorities of the church, the priority of the church, and that's preaching the word of god. We need to protect spiritual priorities. We need to minister to people without a doubt. We need to listen and and when we can minister on a practical level, we can do that. Let's do so biblically. Let's keep a heart for god in everything that we do and everything we say. And just like them, I think we had to incorporate everybody into participating. I love what's going take place this week. Vacation Bible School actually is one of the things of our church. We see the most participation in by the congregation. Can I tell you there's a lot of things that we can be involved in if everybody just jump in? Everybody gets excited.”
66s
“``For most of us, when we hear a list like James gave us, it's really easy to start telling ourselves all the things we're going to do or not going to do. We're gonna watch our mouths. We're gonna pay attention real close to what we watch on Netflix. We're gonna serve in the kids worship. Wink. Wink. Nudge. Nudge. Don't get me wrong. All that all that stuff's great. It's all important. It all needs done. But if that's all we're doing, it's just us trying harder. It's just trying to do stuff in our own power to manage our sin and modify our behavior. But here's what you gotta get. is the self deception that James is talking about here. Trying harder to speak carefully, trying harder to love practically, trying harder to live distinctly isn't a work we take on, but it's the role of the holy spirit's work in us. These markers aren't the performance of authentic faith. They're the evidence of it.”

Why Chesapeake churches are unique

Set in the Hampton Roads region, Chesapeake, VA has a large active-duty and veteran community, so churches in Chesapeake often emphasize practical care, flexible schedules, and a welcoming culture for people who relocate frequently. This mobility and diversity shape gatherings and weekday ministries, with congregations blending Southern warmth and global perspectives through support for military families, pastoral care during deployments, and multicultural services and bilingual worship.
As a fast-growing, family-oriented city, neighborhoods like Greenbrier, Great Bridge, and Western Branch draw commuters and young households, and Chesapeake churches respond with age-specific discipleship and accessible service times. You’ll see an emphasis on safe, engaging environments and convenient weekday connection points such as strong kids programs for young families, weekday preschool and childcare, and sports and recreation ministries.
Geographically, Chesapeake stretches from suburban corridors to farmland and the Great Dismal Swamp, so congregations often serve wide areas and lean into creation care and community service. Many churches in Chesapeake invest in multi-neighborhood presence and practical help—especially during storm season—through multi-site congregations across neighborhoods, creation care and community gardens, and regional outreach and disaster relief.