Saint Paul Lutheran Church
Saint Paul Lutheran Church is a Evangelical Lutheran church at 1427 West Lake Avenue in Peoria, IL 61614. It is one of 236 churches in Peoria, and one of 3 Evangelical Lutheran congregations in the city.
St. Paul strives to make the world a better place by providing a Free Clothing Closet, a Free Little Food Pantry, serves breakfast every Saturday at the East Bluff Mission, and is involved with Pride Fest.
St. Paul is the Oldest Lutheran Church in Peoria. Born in the early 1800’s on First Street and Goodwin in what is now downtown Peoria, St. Paul has moved and grown since those days. Once a German-speaking congregation for German immigrants, St. Paul has grown to welcome people of all shapes and sizes!
1427 West Lake Avenue, Peoria, IL, 61614Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (309) 682-2931 · Website: https://stpaulpeoria.org/
Saint Paul 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.
Ministries at Saint Paul Lutheran Church
- Clothing Closet
- Free Little Food Pantry
- Breakfast Service
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Latest from St. Paul Lutheran Church Peoria's YouTube channel: Sunday, September 13, 2026 10am Service (all videos).
The community around Saint Paul Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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: 34.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Peoria city is served by 130 churches — about one congregation for every 773 residents.
Churches near Saint Paul Lutheran Church
- Peoria First — 0.3 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Salem Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Remnant Community Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Covenant Fellowship Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Glen Hill — 0.7 mi away
- First Church of the Brethren — 0.8 mi away
- New Hope International Ministries — 0.8 mi away
- Fellowship Bible Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Federated Church — 0.9 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Salem Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Calvary Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Mt Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Living Hope Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away
- First English Lutheran Church — 1.9 mi away