Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Peoria, IL 61605. It is one of 236 churches in Peoria, and one of 36 Baptist congregations in the city.
Peoria, IL, 61605Pleasant 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 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. 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 2,100 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: 47.0%
- Food Insecurity: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.1%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 19.5% (6.8–32.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
- Poverty Rate: 21.3% (9.0–33.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Peoria city is served by 130 churches — about one congregation for every 773 residents.
Churches near Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Greater Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Renewed Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- PEACE Church Peoria — 0.4 mi away
- Lovejoy Church of God In — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Laramie Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Landmark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away