Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church
Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gary, IN 46404. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gary, IN, 46404Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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 Pilgrim Rest 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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 67.9% (50.4–85.4%)
- Obesity: 52.3%
- Food Insecurity: 42.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.8%
- Poverty Rate: 36.8% (21.0–52.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.4%
- Diabetes: 27.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (3.7–18.4%)
- Unemployment: 7.3% (1.7–13.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church
- Anointed House of Prayer — 0.2 mi away
- Peace Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Andrew African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses--Tolleston — 0.3 mi away
- Olive Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Israel The Church Of Jesus — 0.4 mi away
- First Spiritualist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Temple of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Peace Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Olive Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tree of Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away