First English Lutheran Church
First English Lutheran Church is a Evangelical Lutheran church at 725 East Forrest Hill Avenue in Peoria, IL 61603. It is one of 236 churches in Peoria, and one of 3 Evangelical Lutheran congregations in the city.
725 East Forrest Hill Avenue, Peoria, IL, 61603Website: https://www.felcpeoria.org/
First English 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.
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The community around First English Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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: 35.3%
- Poverty Rate: 22.9% (13.4–32.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.4%
- Obesity: 38.9%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.7%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Peoria city is served by 130 churches — about one congregation for every 773 residents.
Churches near First English Lutheran Church
- Forrest Hill United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Community Chapel International Four Square Church — 0.2 mi away
- German Apostolic Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Praise Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sure Foundation Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Child Evangelism Fellowship of IL — 0.6 mi away
- Peoria Friendship M.B. Church — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Mt Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away
- Salem Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away