Saint Bernard's Church
Saint Bernard's Church is a Roman Catholic church at 509 East Kansas Street in Peoria, IL 61603. It is one of 236 churches in Peoria, and one of 3 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
509 East Kansas Street, Peoria, IL, 61603Shares a ministry location with Centerpoint Community Church.
Saint Bernard's Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,056 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Illinois — 18,926 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint Bernard's 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 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 77.7% (57.9–97.4%)
- Obesity: 45.2%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Food Insecurity: 39.1%
- Poverty Rate: 34.3% (21.5–47.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.0%
- Unemployment: 24.3% (11.2–37.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.4%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Saint Bernard's Church
- Centerpoint Community Church — 0 mi away
- Prince of Peace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Child Evangelism Fellowship of IL — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom of Deliverance Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Glen Oak Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Living God Temple #5 — 0.5 mi away
- Bible Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Arcadia Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- All Saints Greek Orthodox Church — 0.6 mi away
- Living Love Ministries — 0.7 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Cathedral of Saint Mary of The Immaculate Conception — 0.9 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Philomena Parish — 1.5 mi away
- St. Joseph Catholic Church — 1.8 mi away
- Saint Thomas the Apostle Church — 1.9 mi away in Peoria Heights, IL