Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church
Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 491 East McLemore Avenue in Memphis, TN 38106. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 382 Baptist congregations in the city.
491 East McLemore Avenue, Memphis, TN, 38106Service times
- Sunday 9am
Phone: +1-901-775-0040 · Website: https://www.pilgrimrestmemphis.org
Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,860 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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 Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church
- Men’s Fellowship
- Personnel Ministry
- Trustees
- The Educational Outreach Ministry
- Children Ministry
- The Kennedy Street Ministry
- Mission Ministry
- Witness Ministry
- Deacons Ministry
- Feeding the Community
- Membership Development
- Women’s Ministry
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Latest from Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church's YouTube channel: | Sunday Service | Aug 02, 2026 | Pastor Ashton E. Alexander Sr. | (all videos).
The community around Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 2 in 3 the people here live 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.
- Child Poverty: 90.4%
- Poverty Rate: 67.9%
- Obesity: 56.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 50.1%
- Unemployment: 32.6% (18.1–47.2%)
- Diabetes: 31.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.7% (8.7–28.7%)
- Depression: 26.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church
- Union Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Abundant Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Mount Moriah Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Pine Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Blessed Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lemoyne Truevine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tree of Life Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Lebanon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Blessed Trinity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Abundant Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Pine Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Blessed Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lemoyne Truevine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away