Center for Practical Christianity

The community around Center for Practical Christianity

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Obesity: 51.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.0%
• Diabetes: 21.0%
• Poverty Rate: 25.9% (15.3–36.5%)
• Unemployment: 8.7% (2.7–14.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Lakeland city is served by 95 churches — about one congregation for every 1,199 residents.

Churches near Center for Practical Christianity

• Church of God — 0.1 mi away
• Mount Calvary Church — 0.1 mi away
• New Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
• Friendship Church — 0.2 mi away
• New Mount Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
• Harmony Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Greater New Beginning Baptist Church Inc — 0.3 mi away
• Mount Sinai Primitive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Ewing Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away