St. John EMBC Church
St. John EMBC Church is a Baptist church at 1234 West 63rd Street in Chicago, IL 60636. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
1234 West 63rd Street, Chicago, IL, 60636St. John EMBC 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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The community around St. John EMBC 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. About 2 in 3 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 2,300 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: 65.3%
- Food Insecurity: 45.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Unemployment: 25.2% (13.2–37.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.2%
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Poverty Rate: 27.2% (13.1–41.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near St. John EMBC Church
- Abundant Blessings Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Carmel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- United Church of Holiness — 0.2 mi away
- Englewood United Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beautiful Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Strangers Home Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sunrise Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Englewood United Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beautiful Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Strangers Home Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sunrise Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away