Athens Lutheran Church

Athens Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 710 Forrest Avenue in Athens, TN 37303. It is one of 88 churches in Athens.

Part of Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

710 Forrest Avenue, Athens, TN, 37303

Service times

  • Sunday 8:30am · school begins

Phone: 423-745-9419 · Website: https://athenslutheranchurch.org/

Athens Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 108 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Tennessee — 15,755 across the United States on The Church Map.

Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.

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The community around Athens Lutheran Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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: 46.1%
  • Child Poverty: 38.0% (18.8–57.2%)
  • Depression: 29.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.9% (14.3–33.5%)
  • Unemployment: 8.8% (3.4–14.1%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
  • Diabetes: 13.4%

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

Athens city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 289 residents.

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