Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church
Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Athens, AL 35611. It is one of 146 churches in Athens, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
Here at Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church, we are driven by a single goal; to do our part in making the world a better place for all.
Athens, AL, 35611Service times
- Sunday 9:45am · School -
Phone: (256) 233-3940 · Website: http://www.sweethomembchurch.org/
Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
- Food Insecurity: 22.9%
- Diabetes: 17.7%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Poverty Rate: 20.7% (12.2–29.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (6.2–18.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (2.0–11.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Athens city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 693 residents.
Churches near Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church
- Trinity Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Village View United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Athens Trinity Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- James Chapel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lucas Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Market Street Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Oasis: Christ's Church at Athens — 0.5 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Antioch Second Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- James Chapel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Peace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Union Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- West Highland Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away