Mt Zion Baptist Church
Mt Zion Baptist Church is a church at 32 W Carpenter St in Athens, OH 45701-3198. It is one of 50 churches in Athens.
32 W Carpenter St, Athens, OH, 45701-3198Phone: +17405938881 · Website: http://www.mtzionathens.org/
Mt Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,344 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 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 Mt Zion Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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.
- Child Poverty: 65.8% (46.0–79.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 56.2%
- Social Isolation: 45.0%
- Depression: 37.0%
- Food Insecurity: 27.9% (19.3–36.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6% (13.6–23.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.9%
- Unemployment: 9.5% (4.9–14.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.5% (12.7–22.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mt Zion Baptist Church
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Central Venue — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul’s Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Brookfield Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Reach Out On Campus — 0.3 mi away
- Christ the King University Parish — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bible Truth Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in The Plains, OH
- Rolling Hills Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Free Will Baptist Church — 8.2 mi away
- Albany Baptist Church — 9.2 mi away in Albany, OH
- Carpenter Freewill Baptist Church — 13.3 mi away in Albany, OH