16th Ave Church of Christ
16th Ave Church of Christ is a church at 1902 16th Avenue in Sterling, IL 61081. It is one of 42 churches in Sterling.
1902 16th Avenue, Sterling, IL, 61081Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · Mornings In-Person Worship
- Sunday 10:30am · Mornings In-Person Worship
Website: https://www.16avechurch.com/
16th Ave Church of Christ is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 326 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Illinois — 10,488 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Stone-Campbell churches asked American Christians to put down their party names and be simply Christians, and they meant it enough to give up their own. Their plea for one table, and their weekly return to it, is one of the few genuinely American gifts to the church's understanding of itself.
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The community around 16th Ave Church of Christ
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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: 32.4%
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 21.7% (13.1–30.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.3%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Sterling city is served by 28 churches — about one congregation for every 505 residents.
Churches near 16th Ave Church of Christ
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- Open Door Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Abiding Word Church — 0.6 mi away
- Reformed Mennonite Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene of Sterling — 0.8 mi away
More Restorationist churches nearby
- First Christian Church of Rock Falls — 2.2 mi away in Rock Falls, IL
- Community Church of Christ — 3.2 mi away in Rock Falls, IL
- Church of Christ — 13.3 mi away in Tampico, IL
- Kingdom Life Community Church — 18.1 mi away in Morrison, IL