Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church

Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bakersfield, CA 93307. It is one of 434 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 39 Baptist congregations in the city.

Bakersfield, CA, 93307

Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,885 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.

Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.

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The community around Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Food Insecurity: 44.4%
  • Child Poverty: 40.7% (22.4–59.0%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 34.1%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 27.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.5%
  • Obesity: 42.3%
  • Social Isolation: 39.8%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 27.0% (15.6–38.4%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 21.9%
  • Diabetes: 17.4%
  • Unemployment: 11.7% (5.5–18.0%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (4.0–24.5%)

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

Bakersfield city is served by 97 churches — about one congregation for every 3,983 residents.

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