Community Baptist Church
Community Baptist Church is a Baptist church at Forsythe Avenue in Calumet City, IL 60409. It is one of 22 churches in Calumet City, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Forsythe Avenue, Calumet City, IL, 60409Community 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 Community 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up 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.
- Obesity: 45.1%
- Child Poverty: 44.4% (29.3–59.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 43.1%
- Poverty Rate: 35.5% (23.8–47.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.5%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Unemployment: 16.1% (8.2–24.0%)
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (9.3–20.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Calumet City city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 4,121 residents.
Churches near Community Baptist Church
- God's Word Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Chicago One Parish CCC — 0.3 mi away
- Celestial Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph Church — 0.3 mi away in Hammond, IN
- Jesus Shepherd Of Souls Parish — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Andrew the Apostle Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Works Outreach & Deliverance Ministry — 0.5 mi away in Hammond, IN
- First Baptist Church of Hammond — 0.5 mi away in Hammond, IN
- Celia Gregg Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- All Nations Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Hammond — 0.5 mi away in Hammond, IN
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- State Street Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Hammond, IN
- Northside Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Hammond, IN
- New Salem Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Hammond, IN
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