Greater Cannan Baptist Church
Greater Cannan Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gary, IN 46409. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gary, IN, 46409Greater Cannan 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 Cannan 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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 76.9% (57.1–96.7%)
- Obesity: 53.9%
- Food Insecurity: 47.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.8%
- Poverty Rate: 37.3% (23.1–51.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.6%
- Diabetes: 26.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.7%
- Unemployment: 17.8% (9.0–26.6%)
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Greater Cannan Baptist Church
- Saint Peters Assyrian Eastern Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Deliverance — 0.2 mi away
- Life Church International — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Family Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Deliverance Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Latter Rain Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- King's Highway Deliverance Church International • Gary — 0.2 mi away
- Father's Heart Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gary Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Household of Israel Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Salvation Free Christian Fellowship Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Providence Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away