Gentle Shepherd Fellowship Church
Gentle Shepherd Fellowship Church is a church in Rockford, IL 61104. It is one of 262 churches in Rockford.
Rockford, IL, 61104Find Gentle Shepherd Fellowship Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Gentle Shepherd Fellowship 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 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: 72.0%
- Obesity: 51.3%
- Food Insecurity: 46.8%
- Poverty Rate: 45.8%
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.4%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Unemployment: 13.3% (7.4–19.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (6.3–19.7%)
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 Gentle Shepherd Fellowship Church
- Broadway United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Centennial Multicultural United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Forest City Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Salem Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- South Park Covenant Church — 0.6 mi away
- Rockford Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Tabor Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away