Sweet Rest Baptist Church
Sweet Rest Baptist Church is a church at 1811 Desmare St in Franklinton, LA 70438-2113. It is one of 65 churches in Franklinton.
1811 Desmare St, Franklinton, LA, 70438-2113Phone: +19858393238 · Website: http://www.sweetrest.org/
Sweet Rest Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Rest Baptist Church
It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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: 46.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.5%
- Food Insecurity: 28.6%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Poverty Rate: 23.1% (11.1–35.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (3.1–14.2%)
- Depression: 26.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sweet Rest Baptist Church
- Faith Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sweet Home Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Winan United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Church of Franklinton — 0.5 mi away
- St. John Temple Church of God In Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Family Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Magee's Temple — 0.5 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church Franklinton — 0.8 mi away
- Springhill Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Grace Heritage Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
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