Greater Galilee Baptist Church
Greater Galilee 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, 61102Shares a ministry location with Mount Goshen Full Gospel Baptist Church.
Greater Galilee 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 Galilee Baptist 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 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: 65.4%
- Obesity: 52.5%
- Food Insecurity: 44.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.5%
- Poverty Rate: 31.0% (17.4–44.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.8%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Unemployment: 16.1% (6.3–25.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.2%
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 Galilee Baptist Church
- Mount Goshen Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Victory Outreach Rockford — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- House of Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Temple of Blessing Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- West Side Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Tabernacle Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ the Carpenter United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- West Side Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Zion — 0.7 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away