Thankful Baptist Church
Thankful Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Athens-Clarke County, GA 30605. It is one of 36 churches in Athens-Clarke County, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Simply stated, we are working and walking the path paved with values instilled in us by the teachings of Jesus.
Thankful Baptist Church is rooted in loving God, loving our neighbors, and living our lives in a manner befitting the Lord.
Athens-Clarke County, GA, 30605Phone: (706) 742-0091
Thankful Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,417 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 Thankful 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. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 32.4% (23.8–41.0%)
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Depression: 24.6%
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 Thankful Baptist Church
- Milledge Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Bible Church — 0.5 mi away in Athens, GA
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Christian Campus Fellowship — 0.9 mi away in Athens, GA
- Princeton United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away in Athens, GA
- Campus View Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away in Athens, GA
- Catholic Student Center — 0.9 mi away in Athens, GA
- Presbyterian Student Center — 1 mi away in Athens, GA
- 5 Points Church — 1 mi away in Athens, GA
- Wesley Foundation — 1 mi away in Athens, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Milledge Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Edward's Chapel Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Athens, GA
- Timothy Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Athens, GA
- Baptist Collegiate Ministries — 1.6 mi away in Athens, GA
- Hill Chapel Baptist Church Athens — 1.8 mi away in Athens, GA
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