Goodhope Baptist Church
Goodhope Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 6211 South Damen Avenue in Chicago, IL 60636. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
6211 South Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60636Shares a ministry location with Zion Fellowship Outreach Church.
Goodhope 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 Goodhope 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 2,200 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: 54.8%
- Obesity: 46.9%
- Social Isolation: 41.5%
- Poverty Rate: 41.5% (24.1–59.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 40.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.0% (15.7–36.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 21.9%
- Unemployment: 14.0% (5.0–23.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Goodhope Baptist Church
- New Ninevea Missionary Baptist Temple — 0 mi away
- Zion Fellowship Outreach Church — 0 mi away
- Shining Light Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bread of Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Love Unlimited Christian Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Shield of Faith Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Tabernacle of Love Church — 0.2 mi away
- Coptic Nation Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- First New Bethany Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Ninevea Missionary Baptist Temple — 0 mi away
- Shining Light Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bread of Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Shield of Faith Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First New Bethany Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away