Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a church at 1931 Old West Broad Street in Athens, GA 30606. It is one of 130 churches in Athens.
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a body of baptized believers who are joined together to praise and glorify God through abiding faith, loving service, joyful worship, shared responsibility and spiritual growth.
1931 Old West Broad Street, Athens, GA, 30606Mount Pleasant 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.
Ministries at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- Deacon Ministry
- Deaconess Ministry
- Media Ministry
- Music Ministry
- Trustee Ministry
- Worship Library
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The community around Mount Pleasant 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 of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Poverty Rate: 36.3% (26.0–46.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 31.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.2%
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.5%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- Kingdom Living Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- St Joseph Charity — 0.5 mi away
- Beech Haven Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Back To The Bible Deliverance Church — 0.5 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Hill Chapel Baptist Church Athens — 0.6 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.6 mi away
- Oglethorpe Avenue Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Athens Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Beech Haven Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Hill Chapel Baptist Church Athens — 0.6 mi away
- Forest Heights Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church West — 1 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away