First General Baptist Church
First General Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Rockford, IL 61109. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 47 Baptist congregations in the city.
Rockford, IL, 61109Website: https://rockfordunitedchurch.com/index.php
First General 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 General Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 47.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.6%
- Food Insecurity: 32.3%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (5.1–20.7%)
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
- Poverty Rate: 25.8% (15.4–36.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Rockford city is served by 165 churches — about one congregation for every 832 residents.
Churches near First General Baptist Church
- Christ the Savior Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- Blessed Hope Bible Church — 0.2 mi away
- Woodside General Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Edwards Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Brooke Road United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Souls Harbor Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gentle Shepherd Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Church Of Christ East Side — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Woodside General Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Friendship General Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away