Sweet Lake Church

The community around Sweet Lake 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Obesity: 43.7%
• Social Isolation: 38.0%
• Depression: 28.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
• Food Insecurity: 23.8%
• Unemployment: 10.6% (3.9–17.2%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
• Poverty Rate: 18.1% (9.7–26.5%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
• Diabetes: 13.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sweet Lake Church

• House of Worship — 0 mi away in Bell City, LA
• Sweet Lake Church — 2.3 mi away
• Saint Joseph Church — 3.3 mi away
• New Life Church International — 6.1 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
• Vineyard Lake Charles — 6.5 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
• East Ridge Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away in Iowa, LA
• Open Gate Cowboy Church — 6.9 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
• Christian World — 7 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
• Friendship Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
• Faith Bible Church of Lake Charles — 7.2 mi away in Lake Charles, LA