Uptown Baptist Church exists to be a real church of the real God to the real world.

REAL church: connecting people & place in authentic community

REAL God: connecting with the God of the universe through private devotion & public worship

REAL world: connecting our heads & hearts with our hands & feet to serve our world and meet real needs

The mission of Uptown Baptist Church is to grow and develop servant-followers of Jesus Christ who will impact our world as servant-leaders. We will be a diverse people who are growing as prayer-based, Bible-shaped, worship-energized, and mutually caring followers of Christ who will be change agents for God's Kingdom in Uptown, Chicago and sround the world.