Greater Open Door Baptist Church
Greater Open Door Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1303-1309 South Sawyer Avenue in Chicago, IL 60623. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
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1303-1309 South Sawyer Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60623Service times
- Sunday 8am · Morning Worship
- Sunday 11am · Morning Worship
Phone: (773) 762-8753 · Website: http://www.greateropendoor.com/
Greater Open Door 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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Latest from Greater Open Door MB Church - Chicago's YouTube channel: 8/2/2026 Greater Open Door MB Church (Chicago) 11am service (all videos).
The community around Greater Open Door 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: 49.9%
- Obesity: 45.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 39.2%
- Poverty Rate: 38.5% (21.7–55.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.6%
- Unemployment: 16.3% (6.7–26.2%)
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 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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- St. Agatha Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Rose Hill Missionary — 0.2 mi away
- Thompson Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Valley Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Sanctuary Community Church — 0.3 mi away
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