Greater Bethesda Baptist Church
Greater Bethesda Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 109 East 53rd Street in Chicago, IL 60615. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
109 East 53rd Street, Chicago, IL, 60615Greater Bethesda Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 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 Bethesda Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.0%
- Poverty Rate: 33.9% (18.5–49.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.8%
- Unemployment: 18.8% (6.6–31.0%)
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.8%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Greater Bethesda Baptist Church
- Hopeful Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cosmopolitan Peoples Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Reverend Doctor Eric D. Clopton, Sr. — 0.1 mi away
- Revival Outreach Ministries International — 0.2 mi away
- Ebenezer House of Prayer — 0.2 mi away
- First Unity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Harvest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Life Center COGIC — 0.3 mi away
- New Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hopeful Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Unity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Harvest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Life Center COGIC — 0.3 mi away