Lakewood United Church of Christ
Lakewood United Church of Christ is a United Church Of Christ church at 2601 54th Ave S in St Petersburg, FL 33712-4709. It is one of 202 churches in St Petersburg.
Called to love God, love all neighbors, and care for creation, Lakewood UCC is : A Just Peace Church – In 1990, Lakewood formally endorsed a commitment to work for justice, seek peace, and alleviate systemic injustice using non-violence.
Lakewood United Church of Christ is a Christian community dedicated to worship, spiritual growth, fellowship, and service.
2601 54th Ave S, St Petersburg, FL, 33712-4709Phone: +17278677961 · Website: https://lakewooducc.org/
Lakewood United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 73 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Florida — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
Ministries at Lakewood United Church of Christ
- Family Promise Support
- Operation Attack Support
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The community around Lakewood United Church of Christ
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 a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 23.0% (13.1–32.9%)
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Obesity: 39.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (7.1–19.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (1.2–12.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Lakewood United Church of Christ
- Bethel Community Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Saint Petersburg, FL
- Maximo Heights Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Saint Petersburg, FL
- Pinellas Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Maximo Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away in Saint Petersburg, FL
- Bay Point Christian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Polish National Catholic Church of Saint Mary — 0.8 mi away in Saint Petersburg, FL
- Blessed Trinity Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Pinellas Point Fellowship Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Central Florida Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- St Andrew Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Pilgrim Church — 4.9 mi away in Saint Petersburg, FL
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