Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church

Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church is a church at 4650 Flat Shoals Pkwy in Decatur, GA 30034-5000. It is one of 240 churches in Decatur.

4650 Flat Shoals Pkwy, Decatur, GA, 30034-5000

Phone: (404) 243-9336 · Website: https://houseofhopeatl.org

Greater Travelers Rest 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 Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Unemployment: 13.4% (3.4–23.3%)
  • Social Isolation: 40.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.6%
  • Diabetes: 17.0%
  • Obesity: 36.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.3%
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (4.6–21.2%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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