El-Bethel Baptist Church
El-Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5650 South State Street in Chicago, IL 60621. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
5650 South State Street, Chicago, IL, 60621Shares a ministry location with Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer.
El-Bethel 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 El-Bethel 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 49.4%
- Obesity: 46.9%
- Poverty Rate: 43.0% (28.6–57.3%)
- Social Isolation: 41.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.5%
- Unemployment: 17.1% (6.0–28.1%)
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6% (10.2–17.6%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (3.9–19.5%)
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 El-Bethel Baptist Church
- Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer — 0 mi away
- Holy Cross Temple — 0.1 mi away
- 2nd Timothy Missionary Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Spiritual Temple II — 0.1 mi away
- Granderson Temple COGIC Pastor Emeritus James M. Wiles — 0.1 mi away
- Prayer Garden Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Life Center Church of Universal Awareness — 0.2 mi away
- Coppin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Douglas - Tubman Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- New Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- 2nd Timothy Missionary Baptist — 0.1 mi away
- New Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Timothy Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Life Center COGIC — 0.3 mi away