Faith Baptist Church
Faith Baptist Church is a church at 1547 119th Street in Whiting, IN 46394. It is one of 10 churches in Whiting.
1547 119th Street, Whiting, IN, 46394Faith 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 Faith Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.
- Unemployment: 12.9% (7.5–18.4%)
- Obesity: 41.2%
- Social Isolation: 32.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Food Insecurity: 24.9%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Poverty Rate: 20.5% (9.9–31.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8% (7.3–22.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Whiting city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 571 residents.
Churches near Faith Baptist Church
- Immaculate Conception Grotto — 0.2 mi away
- Whiting United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary's Byzantine Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hungarian Reformed Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away in Hammond, IN
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Whiting — 0.8 mi away in Hammond, IN
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Trinity Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Hammond, IN
- East Side Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Chicago, IL
- Grace Missionary Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in East Chicago, IN