Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Harvey, LA 70058. It is one of 46 churches in Harvey, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Harvey, LA, 70058Mount 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.
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The community around Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 55.0% (37.9–72.9%)
- Obesity: 50.8%
- Food Insecurity: 42.7%
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.8%
- Poverty Rate: 37.2% (25.6–48.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.6%
- Diabetes: 23.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.7% (12.9–32.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (2.7–14.8%)
- Depression: 25.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
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- Bible Way Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Evening Star Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Infant Jesus of Prague Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- White Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Sinai Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Bible — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Assembly of God Church — 0.6 mi away
- City Church Westbank — 0.6 mi away
- Empowerment Church NOLA — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Evening Star Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Bible — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Mount Nebo Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Israel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mt. Olive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away