Sweet Hope Baptist Church
Sweet Hope Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Laurel, MS 39440. It is one of 144 churches in Laurel, and one of 38 Baptist congregations in the city.
Laurel, MS, 39440Website: https://sweethopechurch.org/
Sweet Hope 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 Sweet Hope 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 47.2%
- Food Insecurity: 32.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
- Poverty Rate: 30.3% (15.9–44.6%)
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.7% (10.2–27.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (2.4–14.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Laurel city is served by 45 churches — about one congregation for every 217 residents.
Churches near Sweet Hope Baptist Church
- Southside Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- South Laurel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Elmo Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Second Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pine Grove MB Church — 0.7 mi away
- Triumph Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St John Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- South Laurel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Elmo Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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