Elk River Church
Elk River Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 10020 Upper Snake Rd in Athens, AL 35614. It is one of 146 churches in Athens, and one of 4 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
Elk River Baptist Church is located at 10020 Upper Snake Rd in Athens, AL - Limestone County and is a business listed in the categories Baptist Churches and Church & Religious Associations & Organizations.
10020 Upper Snake Rd, Athens, AL, 35614Phone: (256) 729-1642 · Website: https://elk-river-baptist-church.hub.biz/
Elk River 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 Elk River Church
It takes 3.6 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 of adults here carry depression. 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: 41.3%
- Social Isolation: 34.0%
- Depression: 26.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
- Poverty Rate: 18.1% (5.8–30.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.8%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Elk River Church
- Cairo Church — 0.4 mi away
- Cairo Church — 0.9 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Church of Christ — 1.5 mi away
- Lentzville United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Temperance Oak Church — 2.8 mi away
- Carriger Church of Christ — 2.9 mi away
- Salem Spring Church — 3.8 mi away in Elkmont, AL
- Cedar Grove Church of Christ — 3.8 mi away in Rogersville, AL
- The Church at River Mills — 4.2 mi away
- Lebanon Church — 4.2 mi away in Elkmont, AL
More Baptist churches nearby
- The Church at River Mills — 4.2 mi away
- Shanghai Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Salem Springs Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Elkmont, AL
- Clements Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
- Enon Church — 5.5 mi away in Anderson, AL