West Point Baptist Church
West Point Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3556 South Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago, IL 60653. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
3556 South Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60653Website: http://www.wpmbc.org/
West Point Baptist 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 West Point Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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: 48.7%
- Obesity: 46.5%
- Poverty Rate: 44.2% (27.2–61.2%)
- Social Isolation: 41.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Unemployment: 30.0% (21.8–38.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.2%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near West Point Baptist Church
- Sixth Grace United Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pastoral Juvenil Hispana — 0.2 mi away
- Young Adult Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- St Joseph Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- South Park Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Blackwell-Israel Samuel A.M.E. Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Glorious Light Church — 0.5 mi away
- Monumental Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Angels Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hartzell United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St Joseph Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- South Park Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Monumental Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Zion Grove Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away