Sweet Home Church

The community around Sweet Home Church

It takes 6.5 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 43.2%
• Social Isolation: 34.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
• Food Insecurity: 24.2%
• Diabetes: 15.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
• Child Poverty: 26.1% (9.3–42.8%)
• Depression: 23.5%
• Poverty Rate: 18.4% (9.5–27.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 18.1%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sweet Home Church

• Bethlehem Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Sneeds Church — 1.7 mi away
• Bright Star Church — 2.7 mi away
• Yorktown First Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• New Macedonia Church — 2.9 mi away
• Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Folk Chapel — 3.2 mi away
• Richardson Church — 3.2 mi away in Grady, AR
• Shady Grove Church — 3.6 mi away
• Yorktown First Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away