Sweet Home Church

The community around Sweet Home Church

It takes 6.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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.

• Unemployment: 13.8% (4.3–23.4%)
• Social Isolation: 33.6%
• Diabetes: 15.4%
• Obesity: 38.2%
• Depression: 26.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
• Food Insecurity: 17.5%

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

Churches near Sweet Home Church

• Elizabeth Church — 0.8 mi away
• Mt Paran Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Shongaloo, LA
• Salem Church — 2.4 mi away
• Union Springs Church — 2.8 mi away
• Old Union Church — 3.1 mi away
• White Rose Church — 3.2 mi away in Shongaloo, LA
• Church of Christ — 5 mi away in Minden, LA
• Saints Rest Church — 6.2 mi away
• Old Shongaloo Church — 6.3 mi away
• Shady Grove Church — 6.9 mi away in Haynesville, LA