Pilgrim Rest Church

The community around Pilgrim Rest Church

It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Child Poverty: 50.9% (37.4–64.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 32.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
• Obesity: 44.9%
• Social Isolation: 38.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
• Poverty Rate: 29.3% (21.0–37.5%)
• Housing Insecurity: 24.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.5% (12.6–24.4%)
• Diabetes: 17.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.5%
• Unemployment: 8.4% (3.2–13.5%)
• Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Pilgrim Rest Church

• King David Temple Church — 1.8 mi away
• First Apostolic Church — 2 mi away
• Carthage Pentecostal Church — 2.1 mi away
• West Carthage Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Carthage,MS — 2.7 mi away
• Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's — 2.9 mi away
• Wiggins Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Wiggins Methodist Church — 3 mi away
• Tribulation Church — 3.1 mi away
• Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away