Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ponchatoula, LA 70454. It is one of 50 churches in Ponchatoula, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Part of Fourth District Missionary Baptist Association
Ponchatoula, LA, 70454Phone: (309) 205-3325
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.
Ministries at Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
- Sisterhood Ministry
- After School Tutoring
- Baptist Training Union
- Boy Scouts
- Brotherhood Ministry
- Children and Nursery Departments
- Children and Youth Bible Study
- Counseling Ministry
- Cords of Love Married Couples Ministry
- Deacons Ministry
- Deaconess Ministry
- Family Ministry
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Latest from Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church of Baton Rouge's YouTube channel: Wednesday In The Word: John 6:4-5, 9, 11-12 (7/29/2026) (all videos).
The community around Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
- Food Insecurity: 23.0%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Depression: 26.8%
- Poverty Rate: 18.9% (7.9–30.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Ponchatoula city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 259 residents.
Churches near Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
- Hope In Salvation Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Tasker African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Bethel Independent Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Journey Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Westside Church of God In Christ — 0.7 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Ponchatoula — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Ponchatoula — 0.8 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Millville Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
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