Greater hope M.B. Church
Greater hope M.B. Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 14065 Lucas Ferry Rd in Athens, AL 35611. It is one of 146 churches in Athens, and one of 4 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
Greater Hope Missionary Baptist Church is located in the heart of Houston’s Sunnyside Community.
14065 Lucas Ferry Rd, Athens, AL, 35611Service times
- Tuesday 7pm · Evenings
Phone: +17137347971 · Website: https://greaterhopembc.org/
Greater hope M.B. 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 Greater hope M.B. Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 40.3%
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.4%
- Food Insecurity: 15.9%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater hope M.B. Church
- Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Mark Primitive Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Church of Christ Westview — 1.8 mi away
- Emmanuel Church — 1.9 mi away
- Saint Paul Catholic Church — 2 mi away
- Christ Church — 2 mi away
- Remnant Church INT. — 2 mi away
- Sunny Hill Church — 2.1 mi away
- Ark of Promise Apostolic Church — 2.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Mark Primitive Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Peace Missionary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Round Island Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away