Pilgrim Baptist Church
Pilgrim Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Des Moines, IA 50316. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
Des Moines, IA, 50316Pilgrim Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 596 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 71,417 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 Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 29.4%
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Child Poverty: 27.7% (10.5–44.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.5% (11.7–27.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (7.8–18.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Des Moines city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 950 residents.
Churches near Pilgrim Baptist Church
- University Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Apostolic Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Jesus Christ Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Maple Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peter's Church — 0.3 mi away
- Philadelphia Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Maple Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Chapel — 1 mi away
- Grace Fellowship Church — 1 mi away