Providence Baptist Church
Providence 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, 61102Providence 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 Providence 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 nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 51.9%
- Child Poverty: 45.3% (28.8–61.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 42.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.0%
- Poverty Rate: 31.3% (17.2–45.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.6%
- Diabetes: 19.6%
- Unemployment: 13.9% (4.2–23.6%)
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Rockford city is served by 165 churches — about one congregation for every 832 residents.
Churches near Providence Baptist Church
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Miles Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Poor Clares Convent — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Southside Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Israel of God Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saints Peter and Paul Apostles Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Zion — 0.5 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away