Greater New Hope Baptist Church
Greater New Hope Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Rockford, IL 61101. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 39 Baptist congregations in the city.
Rockford, IL, 61101Greater New Hope 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 New Hope Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 51.3%
- Food Insecurity: 38.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Poverty Rate: 32.0% (18.0–46.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.9%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Unemployment: 11.4% (4.0–18.7%)
- Child Poverty: 29.0% (16.0–42.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (6.3–20.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater New Hope Baptist Church
- Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Emanuel Church of God in Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Greater Emmanuel Christian Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
- United Faith Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Lincoln Wood Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hispanicamerican Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Greater Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Primera Iglesia De Dios — 0.8 mi away
- Beverly Park General Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Faith Walkers Assembly — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lincoln Wood Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hispanicamerican Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Greater Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Beverly Park General Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away