Bethany Baptist Church
Bethany Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 6700 West Gunnison Street in Harwood Heights, IL 60706. It is one of 3 churches in Harwood Heights.
Bethany Baptist Church was formed in August 1979 by the union of two churches, the “The Church of the Open Door,” an independent evangelical church, and a second church that stood under the Converge Midwest banner, “Bethel Baptist.”
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6700 West Gunnison Street, Harwood Heights, IL, 60706Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · Service is
Phone: (708) 867-9111 · Website: http://www.bethanybc.com/
Bethany 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 — 71,419 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 Bethany Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 32.5%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (2.0–13.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Harwood Heights village is served by 3 churches — about one congregation for every 1,598 residents.
Churches near Bethany Baptist Church
- Shepherd's Heart — 0.4 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Saint Rosalie Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Union Ridge Bible Church — 0.5 mi away
- Norwood Gospel Chapel — 0.6 mi away in Chicago, IL
- North Shore Spanish Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Saint Monica Roman Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Saint Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Church — 0.7 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Chicago Latvian Zion Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Saints Constantine & Helen Romanian Orthodox Cathedral — 0.7 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Gladstone Park Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away in Chicago, IL
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Foster Avenue Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Montrose Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Chicago Chin Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Filipino Immanuel Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Chicago, IL
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