Mount Olive Baptist Church
Mount Olive Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Rockford, IL 61109. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 47 Baptist congregations in the city.
Rockford, IL, 61109Mount Olive 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 — 71,417 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 Mount Olive Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 49.4%
- Food Insecurity: 37.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.1%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Poverty Rate: 23.6% (13.7–33.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.8%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (2.7–17.1%)
- Child Poverty: 29.8% (15.3–46.7%)
- Depression: 25.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Rockford city is served by 165 churches — about one congregation for every 832 residents.
Churches near Mount Olive Baptist Church
- Brooke Road United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Templo Pentecostal El Calvario — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Edwards Roman Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- House of God Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Gentle Shepherd Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Christ the Savior Orthodox Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Life Fellowship Church — 0.7 mi away
- First General Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Apostolic Mission Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First General Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Friendship General Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Woodside General Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away