Saint Paul Lutheran Church
Saint Paul Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1701 16th Avenue in Sterling, IL 61081. It is one of 42 churches in Sterling, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.
1701 16th Avenue, Sterling, IL, 61081Service times
- Sunday 9am · Morning
Phone: (815) 625-3069 · Website: https://stpaulsterling.com/
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
- Quilts and Kits
- Homeless Shelter
- Children's Feeding Program
- Holiday Hope Chest
- Visiting the Home-bound
- Community Service Days
- Sunday School
- Confirmation Ministry
- Lutheran World Relief Quilts and Kits
- P.A.D.S. Homeless Shelter
- Let’s Feed Our Children
- Lutheran Social Services of Illinois Holiday Hope Chest
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The community around Saint Paul Lutheran Church
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 nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.5%
- Poverty Rate: 22.1% (13.4–30.8%)
- Obesity: 38.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
- Food Insecurity: 18.4%
- 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 Saint Paul Lutheran Church
- 16th Ave Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Open Door Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene of Sterling — 0.6 mi away
- Reformed Mennonite Church — 0.6 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Life Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi away
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 1.8 mi away in Rock Falls, IL
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 2 mi away in Rock Falls, IL