Athens Baptist Church
Athens Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Aberdeen, MS 39730. It is one of 68 churches in Aberdeen, and one of 19 Baptist congregations in the city.
Aberdeen, MS, 39730Athens Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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 4.7 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 41.9%
- Social Isolation: 33.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
- Food Insecurity: 20.4%
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
- Poverty Rate: 16.4% (6.8–25.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.9% (8.4–19.4%)
- Unemployment: 6.9% (0.7–13.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Athens Baptist Church
- Paine Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Athens United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away in Monroe County, MS
- Athens Independent Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Church — 1.6 mi away
- Riverbend Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Smiths Chapel Sanctified Church — 2.2 mi away
- The Church Of God — 2.4 mi away
- River Bend Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Amory, MS
- Calvary Independent Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Amory, MS
More Baptist churches nearby
- River Bend Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Amory, MS
- Calvary Independent Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Amory, MS
- Becker Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Amory, MS
- Trinity Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Amory, MS
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