Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ville Platte, LA 70586. It is one of 45 churches in Ville Platte, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Ville Platte, LA, 70586Mount 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
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 52.1%
- Child Poverty: 49.2% (32.7–65.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 45.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.2%
- Poverty Rate: 34.9% (23.9–45.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.6%
- Diabetes: 24.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.2%
- Unemployment: 19.0% (10.9–27.1%)
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.2%
- Depression: 27.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (7.3–19.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
- Cornerstone International Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ninth Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Living Word Catherdal PBGA — 0.8 mi away
- Lilly of the Valley Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Refuge Temple Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Disciples Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St John Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ninth Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Disciples Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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