Greater Progressive Baptist Church
Greater Progressive Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2215 John Street in Fort Wayne, IN 46803. It is one of 361 churches in Fort Wayne, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
2215 John Street, Fort Wayne, IN, 46803Website: http://www.greaterprogressive.org/
Greater Progressive Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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.
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The community around Greater Progressive Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 54.2%
- Food Insecurity: 50.8%
- Child Poverty: 47.7% (29.5–65.9%)
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.0%
- Poverty Rate: 39.9% (27.0–52.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 36.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.3% (13.4–33.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.6%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 16.8% (8.7–25.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
- Depression: 28.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Fort Wayne city is served by 114 churches — about one congregation for every 2,089 residents.
Churches near Greater Progressive Baptist Church
- Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Temple Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Bethel — 0.2 mi away
- St John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peter's Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Body Of Christ, Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Day Life Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- True Love Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Of The Way Missionary Church-Pastor WJ Sims — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Love Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Providence Baptist — 0.4 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Carmel — 0.9 mi away
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