Olivet Baptist Church
Olivet Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3101 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive in Chicago, IL 60616. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
Olivet Baptist Church (OBC) delivers “church unusual” all week through bible study, collective and individualized prayer groups, Sunday School and Sunday worship service.
3101 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Chicago, IL, 60616Phone: (312) 528-0124 · Website: http://www.olivetchicago.org/
Olivet 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 — 71,418 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.
Ministries at Olivet Baptist Church
- After School Program
- Legal Outreach Program
- Financial Literacy Program
- Theatrical Arts and Music
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The community around Olivet Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 5 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 2,400 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: 37.0%
- Food Insecurity: 20.7%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (3.9–15.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Poverty Rate: 19.4% (10.9–28.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%
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.
Churches near Olivet Baptist Church
- Christ the Mediator Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Love Of Christ Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hartzell United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christian Brothers-Benilde Hse — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. James Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sixth Grace United Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Indiana Avenue Pentecostal Church of God — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Love Of Christ Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- West Point Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- South Park Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away