Lake Traverse Presbyterian Church

Lake Traverse Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in Browns Valley, SD 56219. It is one of 2 churches in Browns Valley.

Browns Valley, SD, 56219

Lake Traverse Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 41 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across South Dakota — 11,342 across the United States on The Church Map.

Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.

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The community around Lake Traverse Presbyterian Church

It takes 8.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.

  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.1%
  • Obesity: 43.6%
  • Diabetes: 16.4%
  • Social Isolation: 28.9%
  • Child Poverty: 26.0% (14.8–37.3%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.3% (12.5–24.2%)
  • Unemployment: 6.8% (2.9–10.7%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

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