Pilgrim Baptist Church
Pilgrim Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1331 Gay St in Fort Wayne, IN 46803-1133. It is one of 361 churches in Fort Wayne, and one of 19 Baptist congregations in the city.
Pastor Dix strongly believes that the hope of any community is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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1331 Gay St, Fort Wayne, IN, 46803-1133Service times
- Wednesday 12pm
Phone: (260) 424-5416 · Website: https://pilgrimbcfw.org/
Pilgrim Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,270 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 52.9% (34.2–71.7%)
- Obesity: 50.5%
- Food Insecurity: 41.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.1%
- Poverty Rate: 34.8% (21.5–48.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.0%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Unemployment: 12.6% (5.8–19.5%)
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
- Depression: 27.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.7% (8.8–24.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Pilgrim Baptist Church
- Dupree Memorial Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- The Well of Fort Wayne — 0.2 mi away
- Elevate City Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Love Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Spiritual Israel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Turner Chapel AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Day Life Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Emanuel Dios Con Nosotros — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Emanuel — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- True Love Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Carmel — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Progressive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Providence Baptist — 0.7 mi away
- St John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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