Star Pilgrim Baptist Church
Star Pilgrim Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 423 East Pershing Street in New Iberia, LA 70560. It is one of 67 churches in New Iberia, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
423 East Pershing Street, New Iberia, LA, 70560Website: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Star-Pilgrim-Baptist-Church/108161729225682
Star Pilgrim Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,419 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 Star Pilgrim Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 47.6%
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Food Insecurity: 38.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.2%
- Diabetes: 22.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Poverty Rate: 26.0% (15.7–36.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
- Unemployment: 9.5% (1.3–17.8%)
- Depression: 26.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
New Iberia city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 633 residents.
Churches near Star Pilgrim Baptist Church
- Lighthouse Missionary Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Good Samaritan Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church Number 2 — 1 mi away
- Solid Rock Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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