Timothy Baptist Church
Timothy Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 380 Timothy Road in Athens, GA 30606. It is one of 130 churches in Athens, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
Evangelize the Lost; Disciple the Saved; Equip the Body of Christ to carry the ministry of the Church into the world.
Timothy Baptist Church was organized in 1882 on a small piece of land owned by Addie Mae and William J. Russell.
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380 Timothy Road, Athens, GA, 30606Timothy 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 Timothy Baptist Church
- Food pantry
- Summer camp
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The community around Timothy Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Poverty Rate: 17.5% (11.1–23.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 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 Timothy Baptist Church
- St. Thomas Anglican Church — 0.4 mi away
- Edward's Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church 316 — 0.8 mi away
- Princeton United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- St. Stephen Anglican Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away
- Nations Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Friendship Church — 1.2 mi away
- Calvary Bible Church — 1.4 mi away
- Milledge Avenue Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Edward's Chapel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Church — 1.2 mi away
- Milledge Avenue Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Thankful Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Athens-Clarke County, GA
- Beech Haven Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away