Athens Baptist Church
Athens Baptist Church is a church at 3 Little Creek Rd in Travelers Rest, SC 29690-1715. It is one of 58 churches in Travelers Rest.
3 Little Creek Rd, Travelers Rest, SC, 29690-1715Phone: (864) 834-7552 · Website: http://www.athensbaptistchurch.ca
Athens Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,009 congregations of the Baptist family gather across South Carolina — 71,418 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 Athens Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Poverty Rate: 23.4% (11.9–34.8%)
- Social Isolation: 29.8%
- Depression: 24.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Food Insecurity: 17.9%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (2.0–11.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Athens Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church of Travelers Rest — 0.3 mi away
- Travelers Rest United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Travelers Rest Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Trailside Church — 0.8 mi away
- Rizen Church — 0.9 mi away
- Resurrection Power Ministries — 0.9 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Calvary Chapel Greenville — 0.9 mi away
- Trinity Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Slater Marietta Church of Christ — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Travelers Rest — 0.3 mi away
- Trailside Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Renfrew Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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