Mount Olive Baptist Church
Mount Olive Baptist Church is a church at 3493 Highway 519 in Athens, LA 71003-3225. It is one of 5 churches in Athens.
3493 Highway 519, Athens, LA, 71003-3225Phone: +13182584082 · Website: https://www.mountolive-church.org/our-beliefs
Mount Olive Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Mount Olive Baptist Church
It takes 6.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 48.2%
- Child Poverty: 45.2% (31.2–59.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.3%
- Poverty Rate: 35.3% (25.6–45.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.4%
- Diabetes: 22.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.8%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Olive Baptist Church
- Tulip Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Homer, LA
- D'Arbonne Church — 2.8 mi away in Homer, LA
- Sanctified Church — 3.2 mi away
- Center Mission Church of God — 3.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Arcadia, LA
- Macedonia Church — 4.6 mi away in Arcadia, LA
- Saint Johns Church — 4.6 mi away in Homer, LA
- New Friendship Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Arcadia, LA
- St Rest Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Dubach, LA
- Mount Moriah Church — 5.4 mi away in Arcadia, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Alabama Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away in Arcadia, LA
- Mt. Calvary Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away in Shreveport, LA
- Trinity Baptist Church — 7.6 mi away in Arcadia, LA