Sweet Home Deliverance Church
Sweet Home Deliverance Church is a Baptist church at 2121 Forest Avenue in Des Moines, IA 50311. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 30 Baptist congregations in the city.
2121 Forest Avenue, Des Moines, IA, 50311Sweet Home Deliverance Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 601 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 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 Deliverance Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 44.3% (25.1–63.4%)
- Social Isolation: 42.4%
- Poverty Rate: 36.2% (23.7–48.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 35.0%
- Obesity: 43.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.8%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (3.1–11.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Des Moines city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 950 residents.
Churches near Sweet Home Deliverance Church
- Faith Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios (Séptimo Día) — 0.2 mi away
- Basilica of Saint John — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hope and Elim — 0.4 mi away
- First Arabic Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Center — 0.5 mi away
- Cottage Grove Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church and Student Center — 0.5 mi away
- Burns United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Hebron Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Community Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Redeemer Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away