Emmanuel Baptist Church
Emmanuel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1904 18th Avenue in Sterling, IL 61081. It is one of 37 churches in Sterling, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sharing the Truth Love and Hope of Christ
Serving since 1918
1904 18th Avenue, Sterling, IL, 61081Website: https://ebcsterling.com/
Emmanuel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
Ministries at Emmanuel Baptist Church
- Sunday School
- Youth Night
- Ladies Bible Study
- Young Adults Bible Study
- Youth Group and VBS
- Children’s Church
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The community around Emmanuel Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.3%
- Obesity: 38.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 20.7% (12.3–29.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.0%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Sterling city is served by 28 churches — about one congregation for every 505 residents.
Churches near Emmanuel Baptist Church
- 16th Ave Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- Reformed Mennonite Church — 0.7 mi away
- Abiding Word Church — 0.7 mi away
- Open Door Community Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene of Sterling — 0.8 mi away