Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church
Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Rockford, IL 61102. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 47 Baptist congregations in the city.
Rockford, IL, 61102Jerusalem Missionary 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 — 71,419 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 Jerusalem Missionary 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 more than half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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: 55.0%
- Food Insecurity: 49.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.0%
- Poverty Rate: 33.6% (21.9–45.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.8%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Unemployment: 15.3% (5.3–25.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.2%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8% (8.9–20.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church
- Greater Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- House of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Dios De Amor — 0.3 mi away
- United Faith Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Walkers Assembly — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Faith Church — 0.4 mi away
- Primera Iglesia De Dios — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Emmanuel Christian Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Hispanicamerican Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away