First Church of the Brethren
First Church of the Brethren is a Church Of The Brethren church at 4714 North Sheridan Road in Peoria, IL 61614. It is one of 236 churches in Peoria.
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The congregation was founded in 1948 and since then has grown from the "Little Chapel with a Big Heart" into the current community that still shares that big heart.
Serving since 1948
4714 North Sheridan Road, Peoria, IL, 61614Website: https://www.peoriabrethren.org/
First Church of the Brethren is part of the Anabaptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 47 congregations of the Anabaptist family gather across Illinois — 1,098 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Anabaptists paid with their lives for believers' baptism and freedom of conscience centuries before either was safe to hold, and every church in America now enjoys what they died for. Their disaster-relief crews, arriving quietly after every flood and fire, and their refusal to return violence remain a standing witness to the rest of us.
Ministries at First Church of the Brethren
- Mountain Mission
- Snack Pack
- Food support programs
- Habitat for Humanity
- Disaster Relief Work
- School Kits
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The community around First Church of the Brethren
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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: 32.6%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Peoria city is served by 130 churches — about one congregation for every 773 residents.
Churches near First Church of the Brethren
- New Hope International Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Peoria — 0.4 mi away
- St. Michael and All Angels Church — 0.5 mi away
- Remnant Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Our Saviours Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Church 2:14 — 0.8 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
More Anabaptist churches nearby
- Peoria North Mennonite Church — 1.8 mi away
- United Mennonite Church — 4.6 mi away
- First Norwood Mennonite Church — 5.7 mi away
- East Peoria Mennonite Church — 6.5 mi away in East Peoria, IL
- East Peoria Mennonite Church — 6.6 mi away in East Peoria, IL