Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church is a church in East Chicago, IN 46312. It is one of 89 churches in East Chicago.
East Chicago, IN, 46312Good Shepherd Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 64 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Indiana — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 50.6% (31.0–70.2%)
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Food Insecurity: 39.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.3%
- Diabetes: 19.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Poverty Rate: 22.8% (12.1–33.5%)
- Unemployment: 11.1% (3.7–18.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (7.8–20.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
East Chicago city is served by 55 churches — about one congregation for every 479 residents.
Churches near Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
- Mision Cristiana Roca Eterna — 0 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal, M.I Plenitud y Vida — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostés — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- East Chicago Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Greek American Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- St. Paul Episcopal Church — 5.1 mi away in Munster, IN
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