The Ascent Church
The Ascent Church is a church at 169 S Cherry St in Galesburg, IL 61401-4511. It is one of 61 churches in Galesburg.
169 S Cherry St, Galesburg, IL, 61401-4511Phone: +13093420149 · Website: https://wearetheascent.church/
Shares a ministry location with Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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The community around The Ascent 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Poverty Rate: 39.9% (29.2–50.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 36.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Depression: 28.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (2.5–11.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near The Ascent Church
- Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Rock Apostolic Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away