Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 908 South Martin Luther King Jr Drive in Springfield, IL 62703. It is one of 164 churches in Springfield, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
908 South Martin Luther King Jr Drive, Springfield, IL, 62703Phone: +1-217-522-2513 · Website: https://www.pgbchurch.org/
Pleasant Grove 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 Grove Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half 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: 56.3%
- Food Insecurity: 47.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.5%
- Poverty Rate: 38.0% (26.3–49.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 34.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.9%
- Diabetes: 24.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.7%
- Unemployment: 18.8% (8.4–29.3%)
- Social Isolation: 39.9%
- Child Poverty: 38.6% (21.1–56.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 1,462 residents.
Churches near Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
- Greater All Nation Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- Prayer wheel C.O.G.I.C — 0.1 mi away
- Shekinah Glory Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- St. Paul AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Brown Street Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Lawrence Avenue Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Worship Deliverance Praise Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist — 0.4 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist — 0.6 mi away
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