Saint Matthew Lutheran Church

Saint Matthew Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 4881 Kilburn Avenue in Rockford, IL 61101. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 23 Lutheran congregations in the city.

4881 Kilburn Avenue, Rockford, IL, 61101

Phone: (815) 963-5435

Shares a ministry location with St Paul Lutheran Church.

Saint Matthew Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,082 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 15,905 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 Saint Matthew Lutheran Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 43.4%
  • Social Isolation: 34.7%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 21.1%
  • Diabetes: 16.4%
  • Unemployment: 9.2% (3.7–14.6%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.5% (12.2–26.9%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%

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

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