Sims Avenue Baptist Church
Sims Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 269 Sciple Terrace Northwest in Atlanta, GA 30314. It is one of 940 churches in Atlanta, and one of 156 Baptist congregations in the city.
269 Sciple Terrace Northwest, Atlanta, GA, 30314Sims Avenue 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 Sims Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 44.3%
- Social Isolation: 43.8%
- Poverty Rate: 42.0% (28.7–55.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.4%
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.7% (10.9–24.7%)
- Unemployment: 9.1% (2.4–16.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Atlanta city is served by 310 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Sims Avenue Baptist Church
- Simpson Street Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Megalight Family Church — 0.1 mi away
- SouthEastern Regional Lectureship — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Bethany Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- One Step Of Faith Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Springfield Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Bethany Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- One Step Of Faith Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Springfield Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away