Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 119 North Bank Street in Lake Charles, LA 70601. It is one of 227 churches in Lake Charles, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
119 North Bank Street, Lake Charles, LA, 70601Phone: (337) 436-0882 · Website: http://www.mountpilgrimlc.org/
Mount 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 about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 52.6%
- Child Poverty: 51.2%
- Food Insecurity: 41.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.1%
- Poverty Rate: 32.4% (22.1–42.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.1%
- Diabetes: 22.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.3%
- Depression: 26.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lake Charles city is served by 91 churches — about one congregation for every 823 residents.
Churches near Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
- St Paul AMEC - Lake Charles — 0.1 mi away
- Lord's Place — 0.2 mi away
- Glory To Glory Holiness Church Ucogic — 0.2 mi away
- Evangel Temple Family Worship and Teaching Center CHSC — 0.3 mi away
- The Church at Lake Charles — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sharon Chapel SDA Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ford Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Warren United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Starlight Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Christian Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ford Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Starlight Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First New Life Missionary Baptist — 0.5 mi away
- Ford Street Baptist Mission — 0.5 mi away
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