St. Matthew Lutheran Church
St. Matthew Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 2200 S Philo Rd in Urbana, IL 61802. It is one of 64 churches in Urbana, and one of 2 Lutheran congregations in the city.
An inclusive, welcoming church that shares God's grace and love to all who enter here.
2200 S Philo Rd, Urbana, IL, 61802Service times
- Saturday 5pm
- Sunday 9:30am · traditional
- Tuesday 8:30am · morning prayer
Phone: +1-217-367-1189 · Website: https://stmatthewurbana.org/
St. Matthew Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,069 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 15,756 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 St. Matthew Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Unemployment: 12.3% (3.0–21.6%)
- Social Isolation: 31.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Urbana city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 1,027 residents.
Churches near St. Matthew Lutheran Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Philo Road Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Quest Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Midwest Believers Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Stonecreek Church — 1 mi away
- Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Andrew's Church and Lutheran Campus Center — 2.5 mi away in Champaign, IL
- University Lutheran Church — 2.5 mi away in Champaign, IL
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 3.6 mi away in Champaign, IL
- Grace Lutheran Church — 4 mi away in Champaign, IL