Avalon Park Community Church
Avalon Park Community Church is a United Church Of Christ church at 8100 S Dante Ave in Chicago, IL 60619-4642. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 14 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.
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8100 S Dante Ave, Chicago, IL, 60619-4642Phone: +17737213988 · Website: https://www.communityrenewalsociety.org/events/avalonpark-community-church-uccwomens-day
Shares a ministry location with United Church of Christ.
Avalon Park Community Church is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 218 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Illinois — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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The community around Avalon Park Community 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 a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,300 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: 27.5%
- Unemployment: 13.1% (3.3–22.8%)
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Obesity: 39.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
- Poverty Rate: 18.3% (8.1–28.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Avalon Park Community Church
- United Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Kingdom Harvest Ministries Chicago — 0.1 mi away
- The House Of Refuge ACOG — 0.2 mi away
- Messiah and Saint Bartholomew Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- FTBC — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Black Methodist for Church Renewal — 0.3 mi away
- Haven of Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Philadelphia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Felicitas Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Lincoln Memorial Congregational United Church of Christ — 2.3 mi away
- Anew Church — 2.5 mi away in Oak Lawn, IL