The Calvary Baptist Church
The Calvary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 8247 South Jeffery Boulevard in Chicago, IL 60617. It is one of 3,017 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
Part of American Baptist Convention
8247 South Jeffery Boulevard, Chicago, IL, 60617The Calvary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around The Calvary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 27.1%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Unemployment: 11.1% (1.9–20.7%)
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
- Poverty Rate: 17.4% (8.1–26.6%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (6.1–19.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near The Calvary Baptist Church
- Greater Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Breath of Life Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Paxton Avenue Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Thomas Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tab Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bible Deliverance Temple — 0.3 mi away
- King of Glory Tabernacle Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Colony All Nation Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- FTBC — 0.5 mi away