Genesis Baptist Church
Genesis Baptist Church is a church at 111 Elizabeth St in Athens, TN 37303-4674. It is one of 88 churches in Athens.
111 Elizabeth St, Athens, TN, 37303-4674Phone: +14234535008 · Website: http://www.genesisbaptist.org
Genesis 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 Genesis Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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%
- Depression: 29.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Poverty Rate: 18.2% (10.4–25.9%)
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (6.8–16.0%)
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.3–11.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Genesis Baptist Church
- The Church of Niota — 0.3 mi away in Niota, TN
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Grace Church - Athens — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- East Athens Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mars Hill Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Keith Memorial Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Central Church — 1.3 mi away
- North Athens Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Parkway Church — 1.8 mi away