Holy Cross Baptist Church

Holy Cross Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2240 West Ogden Avenue in Chicago, IL 60612. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.

2240 West Ogden Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60612

Service times

  • Sunday 11am

Holy Cross 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 Holy Cross Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 37.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 22.2%
  • Unemployment: 9.1% (3.6–14.7%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.2% (9.5–24.8%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%

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.

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