Canaan Baptist Church
Canaan Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 6657-6659 South Harvard Avenue in Chicago, IL 60621. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
Canaan Baptist Church of Christ is on the quest to become a multi-ethnic community of Jesus-followers that transforms the city of Chicago through worship, reconciliation, and neighborhood development.
Services in Chinese
6657-6659 South Harvard Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60621Phone: (773) 783-4336 · Website: http://canaanbcc.org/
Canaan 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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Latest from Canaan Baptist Church of Christ- Chicago's YouTube channel: When the Song Is Hard to Sing - Psalm 137 (all videos).
The community around Canaan Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 51.3%
- Obesity: 47.0%
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
- Poverty Rate: 36.6% (23.2–50.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.0%
- Unemployment: 24.0% (9.4–38.6%)
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Child Poverty: 31.6% (16.3–46.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.7% (9.1–28.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1% (12.3–20.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Canaan Baptist Church
- Union Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- True Vine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Benedict the African Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Full Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beloved Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Big Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Englewood United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church South — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- True Vine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Big Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away