Jerusalem Baptist Church
Jerusalem 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, 46407Website: http://jerusalemmissionarybaptistchurch.placeweb.site
Jerusalem 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.
Find Jerusalem Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Jerusalem Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 8 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: 85.1%
- Obesity: 52.3%
- Food Insecurity: 42.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.5%
- Poverty Rate: 34.6% (21.5–47.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.7%
- Diabetes: 27.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.8%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (1.4–20.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Jerusalem Baptist Church
- Pure Gospel ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Mary's Russian Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- International Christian Lifesyle Unlimited — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Whole Truth Gospel Church of Faith Original — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.2 mi away
- Logan Park Assembly of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- I AM'S Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- House of the Lord Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away