Historic Immanuel Lutheran Church

Historic Immanuel Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 178 McHenry Avenue in Crystal Lake, IL 60014. It is one of 36 churches in Crystal Lake, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.

Our mission is to share God’s love through His Word and our actions. In fact, the sole reason Immanuel exists is to “touch hearts and transform lives with the light of Jesus Christ.”

For over 150 years, Immanuel Lutheran Church and School has been spiritual hub of the Crystal Lake community.

Part of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

178 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014

Service times

Closed (as listed)

Phone: (815) 459-1441 · Website: https://www.immanuelcl.org/historic-church-decommisioning

Historic Immanuel 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 — 15,919 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 Historic Immanuel 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, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 31.7%
  • Unemployment: 7.0% (2.9–11.1%)

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

Crystal Lake city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 2,761 residents.

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