Prairie Avenue Christian Church
Prairie Avenue Christian Church is a Disciples Of Christ church at 2201 East Prairie Avenue in Decatur, IL 62521. It is one of 165 churches in Decatur.
Wheelchair accessible
2201 East Prairie Avenue, Decatur, IL, 62521Phone: (217) 428-9161 · Website: http://prairieavenuechristianchurch.org/
Prairie Avenue Christian Church is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 326 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Illinois — 10,488 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Stone-Campbell churches asked American Christians to put down their party names and be simply Christians, and they meant it enough to give up their own. Their plea for one table, and their weekly return to it, is one of the few genuinely American gifts to the church's understanding of itself.
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The community around Prairie Avenue Christian Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 48.9%
- Food Insecurity: 30.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.2%
- Poverty Rate: 23.2% (12.7–33.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (2.8–14.0%)
- Depression: 23.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (3.8–18.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Decatur city is served by 57 churches — about one congregation for every 932 residents.
Churches near Prairie Avenue Christian Church
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.4 mi away
- East Park Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Decatur Pilgrim Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Pauls Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Life Changers Church — 0.7 mi away
- Emmanuel Southern Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Victory Temple Apostolic Church — 0.7 mi away
- GT Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of the Living in Christ Jesus POGOT — 0.8 mi away
More Restorationist churches nearby
- Morningside Church of Christ — 1.7 mi away
- Mound Road Christian Church — 3.6 mi away
- Community of Christ — 6.7 mi away
- First Christian Church of Bethany — 16.9 mi away in Bethany, IL
- Illiopolis Christian Church — 17 mi away in Illiopolis, IL