Pleasant Green Baptist Church
Pleasant Green Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 144 W 59th St in Chicago, IL 60621-3942. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 38 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
Inspired by the Great Commission to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19-20),
Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church is dedicated to winning souls for Christ through Evangelism, Pastoral Care, and Christian Education.
144 W 59th St, Chicago, IL, 60621-3942Service times
- Wednesday 6pm · Bible Study
Phone: +17736843528 · Website: http://pgmbc59th.com/
Pleasant Green Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 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 Pleasant Green Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 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.
- Child Poverty: 77.7%
- Food Insecurity: 51.7%
- Obesity: 47.6%
- Poverty Rate: 43.6% (28.5–58.6%)
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 40.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.6%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 19.1% (10.2–28.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1% (11.5–19.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Pleasant Green Baptist Church
- Beautiful Gate MB Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Church of God Holiness — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- Joy of Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Chicago Embassy Church — 0.2 mi away
- Prayer Garden Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Hope Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Everybody's Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Every Body's Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Joy of Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Hope Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- El-Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- 2nd Timothy Missionary Baptist — 0.4 mi away