Hill First Baptist Church
Hill First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 205 North Pope Street, Athens, GA, 30601-2547 in Athens-Clarke County, GA 30601. It is one of 37 churches in Athens-Clarke County, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Hill First Baptist is the oldest African – American Church in North Georgia and known as the Freedom Church in Athens-Clarke County.
205 North Pope Street, Athens, GA, 30601-2547, Athens-Clarke County, GA, 30601Service times
- Sunday 11am · Morning Worship
Hill First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,867 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 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 Hill First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 45.1%
- Social Isolation: 43.2%
- Unemployment: 16.0% (4.0–28.3%)
- Child Poverty: 31.2% (22.8–45.0%)
- Depression: 27.7%
- Food Insecurity: 22.2% (16.8–28.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (6.3–18.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance) is served by 88 churches — about one congregation for every 1,398 residents.
Churches near Hill First Baptist Church
- Phoenix Community of Athens — 0.1 mi away
- Redeemer Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away in Athens, GA
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Athens, GA
- St Joseph Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away in Athens, GA
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away in Athens, GA
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away in Athens, GA
- Classic City Church — 0.3 mi away in Athens, GA
- Athens First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away in Athens, GA
- First African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- University Church — 0.4 mi away in Athens, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away in Athens, GA
- Ebenezer Baptist Church West — 0.4 mi away in Athens, GA
- Ebenezer Baptist Church West — 0.4 mi away
- Baptist Collegiate Ministries — 0.5 mi away in Athens, GA
- Central Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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