Greater First Baptist Church
Greater First Baptist Church is a church at 4862 Olcott Ave in East Chicago, IN 46312-3404. It is one of 89 churches in East Chicago.
4862 Olcott Ave, East Chicago, IN, 46312-3404Phone: +12193780914 · Website: http://bishoptavisgrant2.org/
Shares a ministry location with Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church.
Greater First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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 Greater First Baptist 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: 38.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Poverty Rate: 26.3% (15.8–36.9%)
- Unemployment: 9.1% (3.3–14.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (8.4–19.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater First Baptist Church
- Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Freedom Church — 0.2 mi away
- Word International Apostleship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Fundamental — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Goodwill Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- East Chicago Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostés — 0.4 mi away
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- Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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