True Light Baptist Church
True Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church at Drexel Avenue in Ford Heights, IL 60411. It is one of 12 churches in Ford Heights, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Drexel Avenue, Ford Heights, IL, 60411True Light Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around True Light Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 32.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.1% (15.6–34.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 11.6% (5.7–17.4%)
- Obesity: 39.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (6.6–21.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near True Light Baptist Church
- Word of Faith Deliverance Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Temple Church of Holiness — 0.2 mi away
- Sabbath Day Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cole Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Beginnings Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Union Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Christian Valley MB Church — 0.6 mi away
- God Can Ministries United Church — 0.6 mi away