Christ the Carpenter United Methodist Church
Christ the Carpenter United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Rockford, IL 61102. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 12 Methodist congregations in the city.
Rockford, IL, 61102Christ the Carpenter 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 Christ the Carpenter 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 more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 52.5%
- Food Insecurity: 44.9%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 19.8%
- Unemployment: 17.2% (4.5–29.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.5%
- Poverty Rate: 29.8% (14.2–45.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Rockford city is served by 165 churches — about one congregation for every 832 residents.
Churches near Christ the Carpenter United Methodist Church
- Tabernacle Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- House of Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Zion — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Outreach Rockford — 0.4 mi away
- Holiness Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Saints Peter and Paul Apostles Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Israel of God Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Goshen Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Miles Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Centennial United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Court Street United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away