Greater Unity Baptist Church
Greater Unity Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gary, IN 46407. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gary, IN, 46407Greater Unity 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 Unity Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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: 55.6% (36.9–73.1%)
- Obesity: 55.1%
- Food Insecurity: 50.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.4%
- Poverty Rate: 40.9% (25.0–56.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.7%
- Diabetes: 28.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.2%
- Unemployment: 14.8% (2.6–29.1%)
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (2.5–26.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Greater Unity Baptist Church
- Mizpah Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Van Buren Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Embassies of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Warren Memorial Church — 0.2 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Saint Stephen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Israel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Triumph the Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Van Buren Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Saint Stephen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away