Lakeland United Methodist Church
Lakeland United Methodist Church is a church in Lakeland, GA 31635. It is one of 22 churches in Lakeland.
Lakeland, GA, 31635Lakeland United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,458 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Georgia — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Lakeland United Methodist Church
It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Child Poverty: 44.3% (28.2–61.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 30.4% (20.1–40.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.7%
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (8.4–20.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Lakeland United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lakeland Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.6 mi away
- Lakeland Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Refuge Temple SDA Church — 0.8 mi away
- Heavenly Heights Church — 1 mi away
- New Bryant Missionary — 1 mi away
- First Born Church — 1.1 mi away
- Refuge Temple Seven Day Adventist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Unity United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Ray City United Methodist — 7 mi away in Ray City, GA
- Ray City United Methodist Church — 7.4 mi away in Ray City, GA
- Mount Vienna AME Church — 10.3 mi away in Valdosta, GA
- Bemiss United Methodist Church — 12 mi away in Valdosta, GA