Sweet Home Church

The community around Sweet Home Church

It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 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: 46.0% (29.8–62.2%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
• Food Insecurity: 29.9%
• Diabetes: 20.1%
• Obesity: 43.0%
• Social Isolation: 38.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
• Poverty Rate: 29.5% (20.3–38.7%)
• Depression: 27.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
• Unemployment: 11.3% (2.9–19.6%)
• Transportation Barriers: 14.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sweet Home Church

• Saint Matthew Church Number 2 — 1.8 mi away
• Fellowship Church — 1.8 mi away
• Eudora Church — 2.2 mi away in Mer Rouge, LA
• Mer Rouge United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away in Mer Rouge, LA
• Oak Grove Church — 2.3 mi away in Mer Rouge, LA
• St Andrew's Episcopal Church — 2.4 mi away in Mer Rouge, LA
• Mt. Zion C.O.G.I.C. — 2.7 mi away
• Olive Grove Church — 2.7 mi away
• Greenacres Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Macedonia Missionary Baptist — 3.3 mi away in Mer Rouge, LA