Van Buren Baptist Church
Van Buren 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, 46407Service times
- Sunday 9am · School
Website: https://firstvb.com
Van Buren 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 Van Buren Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 55.3%
- Child Poverty: 53.4% (35.1–71.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 50.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.6%
- Poverty Rate: 41.4% (25.2–57.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.0%
- Diabetes: 29.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.4%
- Unemployment: 15.2% (3.4–28.8%)
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (2.6–27.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Van Buren Baptist Church
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Unity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Triumph the Church — 0.2 mi away
- Embassies of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Peter Rock Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Mizpah Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Warren Memorial Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Saint Stephen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Unity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Saint Stephen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away