La Luz Verdadera

The community around La Luz Verdadera

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Child Poverty: 28.4% (14.4–42.4%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.4% (14.9–28.0%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (7.9–15.9%)
• Unemployment: 6.1% (1.9–10.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near La Luz Verdadera

• Iglesia Pentecostal Unidos en Cristo — 0.6 mi away
• St Andrews Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
• Church of Christ of Interlachen — 0.8 mi away
• Bethel Church — 0.8 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
• Bethel Assembly of God Church — 0.9 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Interlachen — 0.9 mi away
• New Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
• First Congregational Church — 1.1 mi away
• Faith Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away