Holy Nazarene Rescue Mission
Holy Nazarene Rescue Mission is a Nazarene church at 6909 South Throop Street in Chicago, IL 60636. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 5 Nazarene congregations in the city.
6909 South Throop Street, Chicago, IL, 60636Holy Nazarene Rescue Mission is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 204 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Illinois — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Holy Nazarene Rescue Mission
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 2,100 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: 46.3%
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Social Isolation: 41.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
- Poverty Rate: 30.9% (13.8–48.2%)
- Unemployment: 26.9% (16.5–37.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.3%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Holy Nazarene Rescue Mission
- First Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Word & Holy Ghost Apostolic Faith Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gethsemane Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Little Friendly Spiritual Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Temple Church of Christ Holiness — 0.2 mi away
- Center of Hope Ministries for the Chosen, Inc. — 0.2 mi away
- Travel Rest Spiritual Church — 0.2 mi away
- Prayer Tower Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Nazarene All Nations Church — 0.7 mi away