Sweetwater Church
Sweetwater Church is a Baptist church in Quitman, LA 71268. It is one of 16 churches in Quitman, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Quitman, LA, 71268Sweetwater Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Sweetwater Church
It takes 4.2 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 43.8%
- Child Poverty: 38.0% (23.6–52.4%)
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Poverty Rate: 23.9% (16.4–31.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.4%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (2.4–10.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sweetwater Church
- Bethany Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Antioch Presbyterian Church — 1.9 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Quitman United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Quitman First Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Beech Springs Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Highway Chapel Church of God — 3.1 mi away
- St Rest Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Saints Rest Church — 3.4 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away