Freedom Baptist Church
Freedom Baptist Church is a church at 2207 Velma Rd in Athens, TN 37303-2270. It is one of 88 churches in Athens.
2207 Velma Rd, Athens, TN, 37303-2270Phone: +14237460193 · Website: http://freedombaptistathens.org/
Freedom Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,860 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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 Freedom Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 49.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
- Child Poverty: 38.0% (18.8–57.2%)
- Depression: 31.0%
- Poverty Rate: 24.1% (16.1–32.2%)
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8% (7.9–21.7%)
- Unemployment: 6.1% (0.1–13.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Freedom Baptist Church
- Parkway Church — 0.6 mi away
- Athens Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- A Servant's Heart Fellowship — 0.8 mi away
- Emmanuel Church — 0.9 mi away
- Overcoming Faith Christian Center — 0.9 mi away
- Victorious Virtuous Women of OFCC — 0.9 mi away
- Allen Memorial Church — 1 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 1 mi away
- Freedman Chapel — 1.1 mi away
- Greater Deliverance Ministries — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Parkway Church — 0.6 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 1 mi away
- North Athens Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Central Church — 1.4 mi away
- Mt Verd Church — 1.7 mi away