Sweet Lily Church

The community around Sweet Lily Church

It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, 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.

• Child Poverty: 96.6%
• Poverty Rate: 37.2% (25.4–49.1%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
• Food Insecurity: 31.2%
• Diabetes: 20.2%
• Social Isolation: 36.4%
• Depression: 27.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.3%
• Unemployment: 8.1% (3.2–13.2%)
• Obesity: 39.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.7%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sweet Lily Church

• Zion Watch Church — 0.9 mi away
• Jerusalem Church — 2.1 mi away
• Liberty Church — 2.4 mi away in Farmerville, LA
• Salem Church — 2.5 mi away in Farmerville, LA
• Meridian Church — 2.6 mi away
• Fairview Church — 2.7 mi away
• Center Branch Church — 2.8 mi away
• Pine Vale Church — 3.1 mi away
• Halls Church — 3.4 mi away in Farmerville, LA
• Salem Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Farmerville, LA