Forest Heights Baptist Church
Forest Heights Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1155 Oglethorpe Avenue in Athens, GA 30606. It is one of 130 churches in Athens, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
1155 Oglethorpe Avenue, Athens, GA, 30606Phone: (706) 543-2191 · Website: https://www.forestheightsbaptist.org/
Forest Heights 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 — 71,418 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 Forest Heights Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
- Food Insecurity: 20.0%
- Poverty Rate: 17.7% (10.7–24.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (6.3–19.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 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 Forest Heights Baptist Church
- Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Oglethorpe Avenue Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Athens Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Athens Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Joseph Charity — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Beech Haven Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Kingdom Living Ministry — 0.9 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Friendship Christian Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Beech Haven Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Hill Chapel Baptist Church Athens — 1.5 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church West — 1.8 mi away