Saint Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church
Saint Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 201 N. Division Ave. in Polo, IL 61064. It is one of 16 churches in Polo.
Our Mission Statement: St. Mark's ELCA is a community of believers who gather to hear God's Word in Christ; worshipping, serving, and proclaiming God's love for all people and the world.
201 N. Division Ave., Polo, IL, 61064Phone: (815) 946-2919 · Website: http://www.stmarkspolo.com/
Saint Marks Evangelical 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 Saint Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church
It takes 4.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 31.6%
- Child Poverty: 22.7% (7.4–38.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Mary Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Mary Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Polo United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Crossroads Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Open Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Polo Church of the Brethren — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church — 8.1 mi away in Dixon, IL
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 8.7 mi away in Mount Morris, IL
- Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church — 9.4 mi away in Forreston, IL
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 10.4 mi away in Milledgeville, IL
- St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church — 11.3 mi away in Dixon, IL