Greater New Mount Eagle Baptist Church

Greater New Mount Eagle Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 12301 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, IL 60628. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.

12301 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60628

Greater New Mount Eagle 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 Greater New Mount Eagle 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. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 37.3%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 29.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.6%
  • Diabetes: 18.5%
  • Obesity: 43.0%
  • Social Isolation: 39.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.5% (15.0–37.9%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 17.6%
  • Unemployment: 8.8% (1.9–16.3%)
  • Child Poverty: 27.3% (17.0–40.1%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (5.4–18.2%)

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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