Temple Baptist Church
Temple Baptist Church is a Baptist church in South Chicago Heights, IL 60411. It is one of 4 churches in South Chicago Heights, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
South Chicago Heights, IL, 60411Shares a ministry location with Transformation Church.
Temple 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 Temple Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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: 29.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
- Obesity: 36.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
- Poverty Rate: 19.4% (10.0–28.7%)
- Diabetes: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (5.9–21.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (1.7–13.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
South Chicago Heights village is served by 3 churches — about one congregation for every 1,328 residents.
Churches near Temple Baptist Church
- Transformation Church — 0 mi away
- Cornerstone Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Living Well Christian Church — 0.8 mi away in Steger, IL
- First Congregational Church — 0.8 mi away in Steger, IL
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Liborius Church — 0.9 mi away in Steger, IL
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away in Steger, IL
- House of Triumph Church — 0.9 mi away in Steger, IL
- Grace Church — 0.9 mi away in Steger, IL
- Faith Christian Center — 1.1 mi away in Chicago Heights, IL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Chicago Heights, IL
- Union Evangelistic Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Chicago Heights, IL
- Greater Faith Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Chicago Heights, IL
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Chicago Heights, IL
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