Sweet Kingdom Church

The community around Sweet Kingdom Church

It takes 6.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 49.9%
• Social Isolation: 40.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.2%
• Food Insecurity: 35.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 26.5%
• Diabetes: 21.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.0%
• Child Poverty: 38.8% (23.4–54.2%)
• Poverty Rate: 29.5% (17.2–41.9%)
• Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sweet Kingdom Church

• Thornton Church — 1.4 mi away
• Promised Land Church — 2.1 mi away
• Walnut Grove Church — 2.3 mi away
• Quofaloma Church — 3.2 mi away
• Good Hope Church — 3.8 mi away
• Goodhope MB Church — 3.8 mi away
• Bethlehem Church — 3.9 mi away
• Refuge Chapel — 4 mi away in Belzoni, MS
• New Jerusalem Church of God In Christ — 4.4 mi away
• Marcella Church — 4.6 mi away in Belzoni, MS