Athens Baptist Church

Athens Baptist Church is a Baptist church in AL 36767.

AL, 36767

Athens Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 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 Athens Baptist Church

It takes 8.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

  • Child Poverty: 58.0% (39.4–76.6%)
  • Obesity: 52.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 44.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 31.3% (15.7–47.0%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 29.6%
  • Diabetes: 27.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.5%
  • Social Isolation: 39.3%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
  • Transportation Barriers: 21.6%
  • Unemployment: 11.3% (2.4–20.5%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

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