Gethsemane Star Baptist Church
Gethsemane Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3535 W 15th St in Chicago, IL 60623-2140. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
3535 W 15th St, Chicago, IL, 60623-2140Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: (773) 277-5135 · Website: https://www.gbcmarengo.org
Gethsemane Star 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 — 71,417 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 Gethsemane Star Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 2,500 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: 53.9%
- Obesity: 47.5%
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 42.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.5%
- Poverty Rate: 32.7% (18.5–46.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Unemployment: 9.5% (2.2–16.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (4.7–21.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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- Mount Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Faith Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Carol Divine Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Hebron Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sanctuary of Deliverance — 0.2 mi away
- All Souls Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Carey Tercentenary African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Stone Temple Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Mount Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Hebron Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Stone Temple Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away