Aldersgate United Methodist Church
Aldersgate United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Rockford, IL 61103. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 12 Methodist congregations in the city.
Aldersgate UMC carries on the central mission theme of the United Methodist Church, Open Hearts, Open Minds and Open Doors to invite everyone.
Aldersgate UMC was founded in 1964 to evangelize people in the northern western part of Rockford.
Serving since 1964
Rockford, IL, 61103Service times
- Sunday 9am · Worship
- Sunday 9:15am · School
Aldersgate United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,033 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Aldersgate United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Food Insecurity: 26.3%
- Diabetes: 18.8%
- Unemployment: 12.7% (4.0–21.6%)
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Poverty Rate: 25.9% (16.3–35.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Rockford city is served by 165 churches — about one congregation for every 832 residents.
Churches near Aldersgate United Methodist Church
- United Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Liberty In The Spirit Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses - North & West & ASL — 0.7 mi away
- Family Christian Fellowship Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- First United Church of God, Anderson, Indiana — 0.8 mi away
- Beth-Eden United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Living Stones — 0.9 mi away
- Chapelwood Evangelical Free Church — 1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Beth-Eden United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Evans United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away in Machesney Park, IL
- Grace United Methodist Church — 3 mi away
- Court Street United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Centennial United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away