Oconee Heights Baptist Church
Oconee Heights Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 4180 Jefferson Road in Athens, GA 30607. It is one of 130 churches in Athens, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to build a church family rooted in Scripture, growing in faith, and living for the glory of God.
We are a church committed to knowing God through His Word, growing together in faith, and living out the gospel in our community.
4180 Jefferson Road, Athens, GA, 30607Service times
- Sunday 11am · Service
Phone: +1-706-548-4600 · Website: https://oconeeheights.org/
Oconee Heights 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 Oconee Heights Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance. 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: 37.4%
- Food Insecurity: 20.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (8.7–21.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 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 Oconee Heights Baptist Church
- Bethesda Temple Apostolic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Vida Neuva — 0.3 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.9 mi away
- Chapelwood United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Sister Louisa's CHURCH — 1.1 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.2 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away
- Catedral De Fe Athens — 1.4 mi away
- Friendship Christian Church — 1.7 mi away
- Greater Athens Church of God — 1.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Forest Heights Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- New Shiloh Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Beech Haven Baptist Church — 3 mi away