Macedonia Baptist Church
Macedonia Baptist Church is a Baptist church in East Chicago, IN 46312. It is one of 89 churches in East Chicago, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
East Chicago, IN, 46312Macedonia 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 Macedonia 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 45.0%
- Food Insecurity: 33.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Child Poverty: 34.4% (16.6–52.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.5%
- Poverty Rate: 22.1% (12.1–32.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
East Chicago city is served by 55 churches — about one congregation for every 479 residents.
Churches near Macedonia Baptist Church
- Metropolitan C.M.E. Church — 0 mi away
- Greater Works Deliverance Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- East Chicago Bethel Church — 0.1 mi away
- Meek Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Hungarian Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Harbor Lighthouse Assembly of God — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
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