The Calvary Baptist Church
The Calvary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 8247 South Jeffery Boulevard in Chicago, IL 60617. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
Calvary will proceed with leading children, adults, and all into a fuller realization of what it means to be wholly committed to God’s kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven.
Calvary Baptist Church now stands as a self-sustaining independent church and continues to be one of the vital institutions serving both God and man.
Part of American Baptist Convention
8247 South Jeffery Boulevard, Chicago, IL, 60617The Calvary 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 The Calvary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 27.1%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Unemployment: 11.1% (1.9–20.7%)
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
- Poverty Rate: 17.4% (8.1–26.6%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (6.1–19.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near The Calvary Baptist Church
- Greater Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Breath of Life Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Paxton Avenue Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Thomas Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tab Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bible Deliverance Temple — 0.3 mi away
- King of Glory Tabernacle Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Colony All Nation Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- FTBC — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church of Chicago — 0.5 mi away
- Haven of Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Nazareth Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away