Wesley United Methodist Church
Wesley United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 2200 16th Avenue in Sterling, IL 61081. It is one of 42 churches in Sterling, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Welcome to Sterling Wesley United Methodist Church! Rooted in the Sauk Valley area for over 150 years, we are a community of believers committed to sharing God’s love and serving others.
2200 16th Avenue, Sterling, IL, 61081Service times
- Sunday 10:15am · School
Phone: (815) 625-1968 · Website: https://www.sterlingwesley.org/
Wesley United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,033 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Wesley United Methodist 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, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 32.5%
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 21.8% (13.1–30.4%)
- 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 Wesley United Methodist Church
- 16th Ave Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Abiding Word Church — 0.5 mi away
- Open Door Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Reformed Mennonite Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethel Reformed Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Free Methodist Church of Sterling — 1.7 mi away
- Rock Falls United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away in Rock Falls, IL
- East Jordan United Methodist Church — 6.7 mi away