Memorial Baptist Church

Memorial 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, 61101

Memorial 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 Memorial Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Obesity: 45.9%
  • Social Isolation: 35.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.2%
  • Diabetes: 16.5%
  • Unemployment: 8.3% (3.3–13.3%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.3% (10.8–29.9%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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