Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church
Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Waterloo, IA 50703. It is one of 126 churches in Waterloo, and one of 24 Baptist congregations in the city.
Waterloo, IA, 50703Pilgrim Rest 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 Rest Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 53.8%
- Food Insecurity: 34.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Unemployment: 21.0% (7.4–34.5%)
- Diabetes: 20.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 22.7% (13.3–32.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Waterloo city is served by 83 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church
- Jubilee United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Urban Misistry Methodist Church;Calvary United Methodist Church;Jehovah's Witness Virden Creek — 0.3 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
- Payne Memorial Ame Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of God in Christ - Gospel Temple — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Faith Temple Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away