The Brief
- A Lakeland church for homeless residents offers free weekly meals, worship services and community support on East Main Street.
- Nonprofit Worth and Purpose operates the ministry while encouraging attendees to help run operations and serve food themselves.
- Organizers hope to purchase adjacent buildings on the block to add a housing complex for those in need.
LAKELAND, Fla. – Every Wednesday, hundreds of people gather at a colorful East Main Street ministry in Lakeland that provides hot meals, spiritual worship and job outreach programs.
Lakeland church offers community
What we know:
Every Wednesday at 11 a.m., “The Table” on East Main Street fills to capacity as hundreds of unhoused individuals receive free meals.
Worship services follow at noon inside the bright, artistic sanctuary designed to uplift visitors.
Attendees take an active role by helping serve meals and run daily ministry operations. The organization also hosts a kids’ ministry and faith-based art classes.
Worth and Purpose mission
The backstory:…