Saint John's Lutheran Church
Saint John's Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1617 East Emerson Street in Bloomington, IL 61701. It is one of 100 churches in Bloomington, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.
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1617 East Emerson Street, Bloomington, IL, 61701Phone: (309) 827-6121 · Website: https://www.stjohnsbloomington.org/
Saint John's 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.
Ministries at Saint John's Lutheran Church
- JoyZone
- Pew Project
- Vacation Bible School
- Stepping Stones
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Latest from stjblm's YouTube channel: St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church - Sunday Morning Traditional Service - 09-13-2026 (all videos).
The community around Saint John's 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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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.
- Social Isolation: 31.7%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Bloomington city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 1,579 residents.
Churches near Saint John's Lutheran Church
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington-Normal — 0.1 mi away
- Hope United Methodist — 0.3 mi away
- Charis Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Normal, IL
- Calvary United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away in Normal, IL
- New Beginnings Church of God — 0.5 mi away in Normal, IL
- Bloomington Bible Church — 0.6 mi away
- Jacob's Well Community Church — 0.8 mi away in Normal, IL
- Bloomington Baptist Church — 1 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Faith Lutheran Church Of Mclean County — 1.3 mi away
- Our Redeemer Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away
- Wittenberg Lutheran Center — 1.9 mi away in Normal, IL
- Faith Lutheran Church of McLean County — 1.9 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 2 mi away in Normal, IL
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