Greater Faith Baptist Church
Greater Faith Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1417 Emerald Ave in Chicago Heights, IL 60411-3517. It is one of 68 churches in Chicago Heights, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
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1417 Emerald Ave, Chicago Heights, IL, 60411-3517Service times
- Sunday 8am
Phone: (708) 265-5200 · Website: https://www.greaterfaithbaptistchurch.com/
Greater Faith Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,419 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 Faith Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 40.7%
- Poverty Rate: 32.2% (20.8–43.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
- Obesity: 40.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Child Poverty: 33.6% (14.4–52.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (3.4–13.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (6.5–19.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Faith Baptist Church
- River City Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia El Faro — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Convenant Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
- Templo Jerusalen Chicago Heights, IL — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Living Full Gospel — 0.2 mi away
- EKG Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- True Foundation Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady Of The Heights Parish — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Agnes Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Evangelistic Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Bethel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 1 mi away in South Chicago Heights, IL
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