West Durham Baptist Church
West Durham Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1901 Athens Ave in Durham, NC 27707-4315. It is one of 446 churches in Durham, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
The mission of the West Durham Baptist Church is to uplift the cause of Christ through the sharing of the Word. We will seek to develop the holistic person in mind, body and spirit by nurturing the saved and being a model of Christ to the unsaved.
1901 Athens Ave, Durham, NC, 27707-4315Service times
- Sunday 10am · morning for In-person worship service
Phone: +19196824453 · Website: https://westdurhambaptist.org/
West Durham Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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.
Ministries at West Durham Baptist Church
- Day Care Center
- Boy Scout Troop
- Nursery School
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The community around West Durham Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About 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 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.6%
- Food Insecurity: 31.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Child Poverty: 32.5% (15.2–49.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Poverty Rate: 26.7% (16.6–36.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (8.8–24.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (3.3–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near West Durham Baptist Church
- Monroe Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Immanuel Temple Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Abiding Savior Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Empowerment Christian Center Church — 0.5 mi away
- The World's Greatest Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Southside Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Community Fellowship International Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Cox Memorial Freewill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Peace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Metropolitan Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- First Chronicles Community Church — 1.1 mi away
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