Saint Paul United Church of Christ
Saint Paul United Church of Christ is a United Church Of Christ church in Pekin, IL 61554. It is one of 45 churches in Pekin, and one of 2 United Church Of Christ congregations in the city.
As a congregation of Christ's people, we are called to demonstrate and share God's word of love, peace, mercy, and justice with all those whose lives we touch and welcome them into Christian fellowship.
Serving since 1858
Pekin, IL, 61554Phone: (309) 347-5196 · Website: https://www.stpauluccpekin.org/
Saint Paul United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 218 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Illinois — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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The community around Saint Paul United Church of Christ
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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: 34.4%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (3.0–14.8%)
- Obesity: 38.3%
- Depression: 25.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%
- Food Insecurity: 15.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Pekin city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 912 residents.
Churches near Saint Paul United Church of Christ
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gethsemane Church — 0.2 mi away
- 2nd Reformed Church in Pekin — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pekin City Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- 412 Student Ministries — 0.5 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Congregational United Church — 1.4 mi away
- Bethel Memorial United Church of Christ — 5.7 mi away in Creve Coeur, IL
- Parkview Church United Church of Christ — 10.2 mi away in Peoria, IL