Tewes Park Baptist Church
Tewes Park Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Hammond, IN 46320. It is one of 109 churches in Hammond, and one of 15 Baptist congregations in the city.
Hammond, IN, 46320Tewes Park 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 Tewes Park Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 56.7% (36.9–76.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
- Unemployment: 12.6% (6.1–19.2%)
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Poverty Rate: 21.9% (10.9–32.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (9.0–21.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Hammond city is served by 65 churches — about one congregation for every 1,190 residents.
Churches near Tewes Park Baptist Church
- Dayspring Ministries Church — 0.6 mi away
- State Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Community Batpist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Nicholas American Russian Orthodox Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethel Church of God in Christ — 0.8 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.8 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Hammond Hope Center — 0.8 mi away
- Iglesia Oasis de Amor — 0.8 mi away
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- State Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Maywood Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Hoffman Street Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Emmanuel Temple Apostolic Church — 1 mi away