Pilgrim United Church of Christ
Pilgrim United Church of Christ is a United Church Of Christ church at 635 Purchase St in New Bedford, MA 02740-6307. It is one of 75 churches in New Bedford.
635 Purchase St, New Bedford, MA, 02740-6307Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: +15089979086 · Website: https://www.pilgrimuccnb.org/
Pilgrim United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 161 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Massachusetts — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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The community around Pilgrim United Church of Christ
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 2,100 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.8%
- Food Insecurity: 33.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Poverty Rate: 28.4% (20.2–36.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Depression: 25.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Pilgrim United Church of Christ
- City of Joy Church — 0.1 mi away
- Spanish Church of God 42 S. Sixth St. New Bedford MA — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady's Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of the Assumption Church — 0.2 mi away
- Interchurch Council — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- King of Kings — 0.2 mi away
- International Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Centro Cristiano Emanuel — 0.2 mi away
- First Unitarian Church — 0.2 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- First Congregational Church — 1.1 mi away in Fairhaven, MA
- Mattapoisett Congregational Church — 6.2 mi away in Mattapoisett, MA
- The Acoaxet Chapel — 12.6 mi away in Westport, MA
- Congregational Christian Church of Somerset — 13.9 mi away in Somerset, MA
- Amicable Church — 14.2 mi away in Tiverton, RI
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