Bethany United Methodist Church
Bethany United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Rockford, IL 61104. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 12 Methodist congregations in the city.
Rockford, IL, 61104Bethany 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 Bethany 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. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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.
- Child Poverty: 84.9%
- Obesity: 52.3%
- Poverty Rate: 51.8%
- Food Insecurity: 45.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Unemployment: 16.9% (7.3–26.4%)
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.7%
- Depression: 24.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Bethany United Methodist Church
- Laotian Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Living Faith Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Walkers Assembly International — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Five Gates Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Lutheral Mission House — 0.3 mi away
- New Direction Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- State Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Centennial United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Centennial Multicultural United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Broadway United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Court Street United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Christ the Carpenter United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away