Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd

Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd is a Lutheran church at 1829 North Rockton Avenue in Rockford, IL 61103. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 22 Lutheran congregations in the city.

1829 North Rockton Avenue, Rockford, IL, 61103

Phone: +1-815-964-8637 · Website: http://www.goodshepherdrockford.org/

Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,069 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 15,755 across the United States on The Church Map.

Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.

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The community around Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd

Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 50.4%
  • Child Poverty: 42.4% (24.7–60.2%)
  • Food Insecurity: 36.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 27.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.5%
  • Social Isolation: 38.8%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 27.9% (17.6–38.2%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
  • Diabetes: 17.2%
  • Unemployment: 9.3% (4.3–14.3%)
  • Depression: 24.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Rockford city is served by 165 churches — about one congregation for every 832 residents.

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