Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 5304 Charles St, Rockford, IL, 61108-8038.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Wednesday at 7pm. Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Rockford, IL is a Baptist church. It is one of 47 Baptist congregations in Rockford.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5304 Charles St in Rockford, IL 61108-8038. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 47 Baptist congregations in the city.

5304 Charles St, Rockford, IL, 61108-8038

Service times

Wednesday 7pm

Phone: (815) 395-0550 · Website: http://www.fbcrockford.org/

First 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 First Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

Social Isolation: 33.4%
Obesity: 37.8%
Unemployment: 7.4% (1.7–13.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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