Sweet Home Church

The community around Sweet Home Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 34.7% (15.0–54.5%)
• Social Isolation: 33.7%
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Depression: 26.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
• Poverty Rate: 21.0% (11.4–30.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 19.7%
• Diabetes: 14.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (6.3–16.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sweet Home Church

• Bethel United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away in Clarendon, NC
• Mill Branch Church — 2.8 mi away in Tabor City, NC
• Faith Believers Apostolic Outreach Ministries — 2.9 mi away in Tabor City, NC
• Chadwick Church — 3 mi away
• Snowhill Church — 3.1 mi away in Tabor City, NC
• Poley Bridge Church — 3.4 mi away
• Pleasant Meadow Church — 4.1 mi away
• Mount Sinai Church — 4.1 mi away
• Faith Church — 4.1 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Nakina Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Nakina, NC