Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a church at 414 Chester St in Athens, TN 37303-3508. It is one of 88 churches in Athens.
414 Chester St, Athens, TN, 37303-3508Phone: +14237456510 · Website: http://forministry.com
Greater Mount Pleasant 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 Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third 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: 47.0%
- Child Poverty: 32.8% (16.1–49.6%)
- Depression: 30.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
- Poverty Rate: 22.1% (13.6–30.6%)
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (6.6–16.2%)
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.0–13.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Agape Center A.O.H. Church — 0.2 mi away
- Freedman Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Mars Hill Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Mark AME Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Grace Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Grace Church - Athens — 0.4 mi away
- West End Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- North Athens Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Central Church — 1 mi away
- Parkway Church — 1.1 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 1.6 mi away