Greater Calvary Baptist Church
Greater Calvary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Rockford, IL 61102. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 39 Baptist congregations in the city.
Rockford, IL, 61102Website: http://calvary.us/
Greater Calvary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,872 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 Greater Calvary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 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: 64.8%
- Obesity: 54.1%
- Food Insecurity: 46.8%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.6%
- Poverty Rate: 31.8% (19.8–43.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.5%
- Diabetes: 20.8%
- Unemployment: 15.0% (5.2–24.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.1% (8.8–21.4%)
- Depression: 23.7%
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 Greater Calvary Baptist Church
- Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- United Faith Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- House of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Walkers Assembly — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Dios De Amor — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Faith Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Emmanuel Christian Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Primera Iglesia De Dios — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hispanicamerican Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away