Messiah Lutheran Church
Messiah Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Rockford, IL 61101. It is one of 262 churches in Rockford, and one of 21 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Rockford, IL, 61101Shares a ministry location with State Street Church of Christ.
Messiah Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Messiah Lutheran 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 more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 51.6%
- Food Insecurity: 39.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.5%
- Diabetes: 19.6%
- Unemployment: 13.0% (4.5–21.5%)
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Poverty Rate: 27.9% (16.2–39.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (7.6–20.6%)
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.
Churches near Messiah Lutheran Church
- State Street Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Sinai Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lincoln Wood Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- United Faith Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Living Word Full Gospel — 0.6 mi away
- United Faith Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Harvest Field Church — 0.7 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away