Sweet Home Methodist Church
Sweet Home Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Lafayette, AL 36862. It is one of 42 churches in Lafayette, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Lafayette, AL, 36862Sweet Home Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,333 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
Find Sweet Home Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Sweet Home Methodist Church
It takes 4.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Child Poverty: 57.7% (38.3–77.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Food Insecurity: 29.8%
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.9%
- Unemployment: 9.1% (1.7–16.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
- Poverty Rate: 20.6% (13.4–27.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sweet Home Methodist Church
- Macedonia Church — 2 mi away
- Lebanon Presbyterian Church — 2 mi away
- Evangel Temple Church — 3.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 3.3 mi away in Five Points, AL
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away in Five Points, AL
- Saint Pauls Church — 3.4 mi away in Five Points, AL
- Pine Grove Church — 3.6 mi away
- Five Points Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Five Points, AL
- Fredonia Church — 3.9 mi away in Five Points, AL
- Chosen Generation Outreach — 4.1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away in Five Points, AL
- Powells African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 5 mi away in La Fayette, AL
- Powell Chapel United Methodist Church, LaFayette, Alabama — 5 mi away
- LaFayette First United Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away in LaFayette, AL
- Sandy Ridge United Methodist Church — 5.4 mi away