Broadway United Methodist Church
Broadway 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.
God calls Broadway United Methodist Church to be a faith community embracing the diversity of our Chicago neighborhood and larger community. We welcome all persons – celebrating the human family’s God-given diversity of race, age, gender, sexual orientation, and physical or mental capacity. We also
Broadway United Methodist Church is open to all people and embraces both church and community organizations. It stands as a symbol of faith and love, inviting everyone to experience the spirit of God in worship and the world.
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Rockford, IL, 61104Service times
- Sunday 11am · mornings
Shares a ministry location with Centennial Multicultural United Methodist Church.
Broadway 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 Broadway 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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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: 72.5%
- Obesity: 51.4%
- Food Insecurity: 47.4%
- Poverty Rate: 47.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.6%
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 13.5% (7.4–19.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.8%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (6.5–20.0%)
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 Broadway United Methodist Church
- Centennial Multicultural United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Gentle Shepherd Fellowship Church — 0 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Salem Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- South Park Covenant Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rockford Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Forest City Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Outreach Ministries — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Centennial United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Brooke Road United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Christ the Carpenter United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Court Street United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away