Sweetwater Church

The community around Sweetwater Church

It takes 5.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 42.6%
• Social Isolation: 35.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
• Poverty Rate: 24.5% (13.9–35.2%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.0%
• Diabetes: 15.1%
• Unemployment: 10.8% (3.7–17.9%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
• Child Poverty: 25.8% (7.8–43.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (6.2–17.6%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sweetwater Church

• Pine Level Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Leakesville Church of God — 2.1 mi away
• Corinth Church — 2.2 mi away
• Church of Jesus Christ — 3.1 mi away
• First Assembly of God Church — 3.2 mi away
• First United Pentecostal Church — 3.5 mi away
• Holy Trinity Catholic Church — 3.5 mi away
• Leakesville Missionary Baptist — 3.5 mi away
• New Hope Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• True Light Apostolic Outreach Center — 3.8 mi away