Sweetwater Baptist Church
Sweetwater Baptist Church is a church at 1305 Alice St in Waycross, GA 31501-4526. It is one of 163 churches in Waycross.
1305 Alice St, Waycross, GA, 31501-4526Phone: +19122851204 · Website: https://www.sweetwaterwaycross.org/home
Sweetwater Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,867 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 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 Sweetwater 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 more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 48.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Food Insecurity: 37.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 35.6% (24.4–46.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 24.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.1%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (2.3–16.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
- Child Poverty: 26.9% (8.6–45.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (6.9–19.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sweetwater Baptist Church
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- El Bethel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Dominion Ministries International — 0.4 mi away
- The Rock (Central Baptist Church Youth Building) — 0.4 mi away
- Mason Temple Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Upper Room Outreach Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Ambassadors For Christ Of The Living God Ministries, Inc. — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- The Rock (Central Baptist Church Youth Building) — 0.4 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Upper Room Outreach Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- H.j. Echols Memorial Tabernacle — 0.5 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away