Pilgrim Rest Church

The community around Pilgrim Rest Church

It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Child Poverty: 44.9% (28.5–61.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
• Obesity: 43.1%
• Social Isolation: 36.1%
• Food Insecurity: 24.6%
• Poverty Rate: 23.2% (16.3–30.0%)
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
• Depression: 26.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (9.2–19.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Pilgrim Rest Church

• Church of God — 1.8 mi away
• Red Oak Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Sneed Street Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Industrial Street Church of Christ — 2.6 mi away
• Church of God — 2.6 mi away
• St John Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• God's New Life MBTC — 2.8 mi away
• Anderson Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Church of Christ — 3 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away