Chicago First Church of Nazarene "Lighthouse"
Chicago First Church of Nazarene "Lighthouse" is a church at 500-506 North Laramie Avenue in Chicago, IL 60644. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago.
500-506 North Laramie Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60644Chicago First Church of Nazarene "Lighthouse" is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 197 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Illinois — 4,365 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Chicago First Church of Nazarene "Lighthouse"
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half 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 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.
- Food Insecurity: 46.4%
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.2%
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Unemployment: 18.6% (11.1–26.1%)
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Poverty Rate: 28.5% (15.0–42.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.9%
- Child Poverty: 22.8% (4.9–40.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (6.5–18.7%)
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.
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