Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church is a church at 487 N Fairmont Ave in Kankakee, IL 60901-2638. It is one of 73 churches in Kankakee.
487 N Fairmont Ave, Kankakee, IL, 60901-2638Phone: (815) 937-4231 · Website: https://www.churchunion.us
Shares a ministry location with Church of God.
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 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 Pleasant Grove 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 more than 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: 51.7%
- Food Insecurity: 41.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
- Diabetes: 22.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.1%
- Poverty Rate: 27.6% (16.4–38.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 11.1% (1.4–20.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
- Church of God — 0 mi away
- Saint Teresa Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gethsemane Gardens — 0.3 mi away
- Spirit And Truth Christian Church Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Fairhaven Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- House-Prayer Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Caldwell Chapel AME Zion Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saints Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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