Athens Baptist Church

Athens Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Los Angeles, CA 90044. It is one of 2,252 churches in Los Angeles, and one of 170 Baptist congregations in the city.

Los Angeles, CA, 90044

Athens Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,885 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 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

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 44.7%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.6%
  • Food Insecurity: 33.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 27.8%
  • Unemployment: 13.7% (6.5–20.9%)
  • Diabetes: 15.1%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
  • Child Poverty: 23.4% (9.6–38.4%)
  • Poverty Rate: 17.9% (9.3–26.5%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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