Sweet Home Church

The community around Sweet Home Church

It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third 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.

• Obesity: 49.2%
• Child Poverty: 45.3% (30.2–60.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 41.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 29.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.2%
• Diabetes: 19.8%
• Social Isolation: 39.6%
• Poverty Rate: 27.5% (19.3–35.6%)
• Transportation Barriers: 21.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.2%
• Unemployment: 9.6% (3.6–15.6%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (6.8–16.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sweet Home Church

• Friendship West Church — 0.8 mi away
• Frierson Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• New Light Church — 2.2 mi away
• Sumner Church of God — 2.4 mi away in Sumner, MS
• First Baptist Church Sumner — 2.5 mi away in Sumner, MS
• Mount Carmel Church — 2.9 mi away
• Good Hope Church — 3.1 mi away
• Brooklyn Church — 3.2 mi away
• Webb Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Webb, MS
• Friendship Temple Church — 3.3 mi away