Messiah Lutheran Church
Messiah Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1601 Avenue F in Sterling, IL 61081. It is one of 42 churches in Sterling, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.
1601 Avenue F, Sterling, IL, 61081Website: https://www.mlcsterling.org/
Messiah 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 Messiah Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Sterling city is served by 28 churches — about one congregation for every 505 residents.
Churches near Messiah Lutheran Church
- Free Methodist Church of Sterling — 0.4 mi away
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Tabernacle Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- City of God — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Life Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethel Reformed Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- New Life Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi away in Rock Falls, IL
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 2.4 mi away in Rock Falls, IL