Pilgrim Baptist Church
Pilgrim Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1703 S. Central Avenue in Rockford, IL 61102. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 47 Baptist congregations in the city.
Pilgrim Baptist Church is a church that values diversity and believes in loving frequent fellowship using small groups. Where members care for one another, study the Bible and pray together regularly and where everyone is involved in ministry that transforms lives.
1703 S. Central Avenue, Rockford, IL, 61102Service times
Sunday, December 29, 2024 10:30AM (as listed)
Website: https://www.pilgrimbaptist.org/
Pilgrim 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 — 71,418 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 about a mile of this church, more than 2 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: 51.2%
- Food Insecurity: 40.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.1%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Unemployment: 14.3% (4.7–23.9%)
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Poverty Rate: 25.6% (12.2–38.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
- Child Poverty: 22.6% (6.1–39.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Rockford city is served by 165 churches — about one congregation for every 832 residents.
Churches near Pilgrim Baptist Church
- Saint Paul Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Miles Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gomez Chapel AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Israel of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Temple of Blessing Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Zion — 0.6 mi away