Mt Pilgrim Baptist Church
Mt Pilgrim Baptist Church is a church at 1409 Martin Luther King Rd in Elton, LA 70532-5329. It is one of 10 churches in Elton.
1409 Martin Luther King Rd, Elton, LA, 70532-5329Phone: +13375842929 · Website: www.gomylocal.com/biz/6243867/MT-Pilgrim-Baptist-Church-Elton-LA-70532
Mt Pilgrim Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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.
Find Mt Pilgrim Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Mt Pilgrim Baptist Church
It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Food Insecurity: 27.0%
- Unemployment: 12.1% (6.1–18.3%)
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
- Depression: 27.7%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.2%
- Poverty Rate: 17.6% (10.2–25.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.0–17.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mt Pilgrim Baptist Church
- United Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Golden Chain Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Pauls Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Elton — 0.4 mi away
- Elton United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Deliverance Temple — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Ann Church — 4.8 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 5.7 mi away in Kinder, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 14.4 mi away in Jennings, LA
- Fenton Baptist Church — 15.2 mi away in Fenton, LA
- Indian Village Baptist Church — 15.6 mi away in Kinder, LA
- Indian Village Baptist Church — 16.3 mi away in Kinder, LA