Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 724 Harrison Avenue in Rockford, IL 61104. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 47 Baptist congregations in the city.
724 Harrison Avenue, Rockford, IL, 61104Website: http://www.baptistgeneralstateconvention.org/about-us/our-churches/bethel-baptist-church.html
Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,417 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 Bethel Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.
- Child Poverty: 70.2%
- Obesity: 51.2%
- Food Insecurity: 43.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.6%
- Poverty Rate: 36.6% (25.1–48.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.8%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.2%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (5.2–16.7%)
- Depression: 25.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Rockford city is served by 165 churches — about one congregation for every 832 residents.
Churches near Bethel Baptist Church
- Arthenia Newburn Ministries — 0 mi away
- New Covenant Christian Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Eagles Christian Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Apostolic Mission Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lighthouse Temple Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Friendship General Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- House of God Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Life Fellowship Church — 0.6 mi away
- Templo Pentecostal El Calvario — 0.6 mi away
- Rockford Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Friendship General Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First General Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Woodside General Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away