Sweethome Church

The community around Sweethome Church

It takes 6.0 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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: 51.3%
• Social Isolation: 42.7%
• Food Insecurity: 40.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.4%
• Poverty Rate: 36.4% (24.5–48.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 30.0%
• Diabetes: 23.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.5%
• Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
• Unemployment: 6.6% (0.4–13.8%)

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

Churches near Sweethome Church

• St Paul's Church of God In Christ — 1.1 mi away
• Epworth Church — 1.4 mi away
• Guiding Light COGIC — 1.7 mi away
• Saint Thomas Catholic Church — 1.8 mi away
• Holmes County Baptist Association — 1.9 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 2 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 2 mi away
• St Mary's Episcopal Church — 2.1 mi away
• Beulah Church — 2.2 mi away