Churches in the Community
Baptist
Pentecostal-Holiness
Methodist
Denominations:
First Baptist Institutional
Beulah Missionary
Congregations:
Greater New Jerusalem
Greater St Paul Missionary
Harmony Missionary
Macedonia Primitive
Mount Calvary
Mount Sinai
New Mount Zion
Pilgrim Rest Missionary
St Luke's Freewill
Zion Hill
Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church
Non-Denominational
Current Pastor
Pilgrim Rest Free Will Baptist Church was founded in 1929, as a result of an internal dispute within the St. Luke Free Will Baptist Church.
As a result, several members who had been banished from St. Luke and not restored began having church services in two story dwelling on Kettles Avenue - across the street from Pilgrim Rest's original sanctuary and present Fellowship Hall.
Reverend D.L. Bright was pastor in 1985.
1047 N Ohio Avenue 33805
Kenneth Brown
Anner Brown
First Lady
Pastors
C.J. Dozier
1929 - 1937
Y.W. Tomlin
1937 - 1958
D.L. Bright
1959 -
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