Sweet Home Baptist Church
Sweet Home Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Mexia, TX 76667. It is one of 53 churches in Mexia, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
Mexia, TX, 76667Sweet Home Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,418 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.
Find Sweet Home Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Sweet Home Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.
- Child Poverty: 55.1% (38.6–71.5%)
- Obesity: 45.6%
- Poverty Rate: 37.6% (26.6–48.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.8% (13.5–32.1%)
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Mexia city is served by 19 churches — about one congregation for every 188 residents.
Churches near Sweet Home Baptist Church
- Alexander Chapel Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Little Zion Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- One Church Mexia — 0.2 mi away
- Lonestar Cowboy Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.8 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Covenant Life Fellowship — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Alexander Chapel Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Little Zion Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church Mexia — 0.9 mi away