St. Edmund Catholic Church
St. Edmund Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 219 E Locust St in Watseka, IL 60970-1663. It is one of 13 churches in Watseka.
Transforming the world in which we live by bringing the teachings of Jesus Christ to every living person.
We are blest to be a rural Church in Watseka since 1879 and a mission Parish in Crescent City, seven miles west on Rt. 24, since 1874.
219 E Locust St, Watseka, IL, 60970-1663Service times
- Friday 7:30am · of th Following
Phone: +18154323274 · Website: http://www.stedstjoe.org
St. Edmund Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,063 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Illinois — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around St. Edmund Catholic Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 46.8% (31.5–62.0%)
- Obesity: 45.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Food Insecurity: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Poverty Rate: 27.5%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (3.5–13.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Depression: 25.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. Edmund Catholic Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Amazing Grace Church — 0.4 mi away
- Centennial Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Kingdom Hall-Jehovah's Witness — 0.9 mi away
- Agape Fellowship — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Paulinus Church — 0.9 mi away
- Prairie States Christian Services — 1.5 mi away
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- Saint James Catholic Church — 23.5 mi away in Irwin, IL