Sweetwater Missionary Baptist Church

Sweetwater Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Flowood, MS 39232. It is one of 25 churches in Flowood, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

Flowood, MS, 39232

Sweetwater Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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 Missionary Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.

  • Social Isolation: 37.2%
  • Obesity: 39.5%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
  • Child Poverty: 23.4% (6.6–41.0%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 19.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.0% (8.9–27.2%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (7.0–18.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Flowood city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 803 residents.

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