Sweet Home Church

The community around Sweet Home Church

It takes 4.3 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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: 43.3%
• Social Isolation: 36.2%
• Depression: 31.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
• Diabetes: 17.1%
• Poverty Rate: 21.2% (10.5–31.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 17.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%

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

Churches near Sweet Home Church

• Friendship Church — 1.9 mi away
• Pierpoint Freewill Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Saulsville Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Otsego Bible Chapel — 3.8 mi away in Mullens, WV
• Slab Fork Church — 4.2 mi away in Mullens, WV
• Saint Johns Church — 4.5 mi away in Mullens, WV
• Pinegrove Church — 4.7 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 5.2 mi away in Mullens, WV
• Highland Avenue Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Mullens, WV
• Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 5.3 mi away in Mullens, WV