Joy of Fellowship Baptist Church
Joy of Fellowship Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5920-5922 South State Street in Chicago, IL 60621. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
5920-5922 South State Street, Chicago, IL, 60621Joy of Fellowship 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 Joy of Fellowship 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 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Child Poverty: 86.5%
- Food Insecurity: 53.1%
- Obesity: 48.4%
- Poverty Rate: 48.0% (33.4–62.6%)
- Social Isolation: 42.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 41.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.8%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Unemployment: 17.8% (8.3–27.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9% (11.3–19.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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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