Lighthouse Christian Center
Lighthouse Christian Center is a Pentecostal church at 37 South 5th Street in Reading, PA 19602. It is one of 137 churches in Reading, and one of 4 Pentecostal congregations in the city.
37 South 5th Street, Reading, PA, 19602Lighthouse Christian Center is part of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Lighthouse Christian Center
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 52.8% (33.7–71.9%)
- Obesity: 48.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.7%
- Poverty Rate: 39.3% (28.2–50.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.7%
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 12.8% (5.7–19.8%)
- Depression: 24.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Reading city is served by 66 churches — about one congregation for every 1,433 residents.
Churches near Lighthouse Christian Center
- First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County — 0.1 mi away
- Rehoboth Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hopewell Mennonite Church — 0.1 mi away
- Charis Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- El Portico Church — 0.1 mi away
- Immanuel Evangelical Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bridge to New Life Christian Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Zion Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away