Athens Church
Athens Church is a church in Fort Meade, FL 33841. It is one of 30 churches in Fort Meade.
Part of Southern Baptist Convention
Fort Meade, FL, 33841Athens Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,719 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 71,420 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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Latest from Athens Church's YouTube channel: Athens Church On Demand | September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Athens Church
It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 27.3%
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.7% (7.5–23.8%)
- Child Poverty: 25.7% (10.4–41.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.2% (10.6–29.7%)
- Diabetes: 14.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Athens Church
- Corinth Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 5 mi away in Frostproof, FL
- Sun Ray United Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Frostproof, FL
- Avon Park Lakes Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away in Avon Park, FL
- Orange Blossom Baptist Association — 6.3 mi away in Avon Park, FL
- Pentecostal Holiness Church — 6.5 mi away in Avon Park, FL
- Church of God By Faith — 6.6 mi away in Frostproof, FL
- Charlie Creek Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Wauchula, FL
- Avon Park Seventh-day Adventist Church — 6.7 mi away in Avon Park, FL
- Centro Cristiano Berit — 6.7 mi away in Avon Park, FL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Avon Park Lakes Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away in Avon Park, FL
- Orange Blossom Baptist Association — 6.3 mi away in Avon Park, FL
- Charlie Creek Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Wauchula, FL
- Emmanuel Baptist Fellowship — 7.6 mi away in Frostproof, FL
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 7.8 mi away in Avon Park, FL
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