Mt Verd Church

Mt Verd Church is a Baptist church in Athens, TN 37303. It is one of 88 churches in Athens, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.

Athens, TN, 37303

Website: https://www.mtverdbaptist.org

Mt Verd 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 Mt Verd 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: 48.1%
  • Child Poverty: 34.1% (14.8–53.5%)
  • Depression: 30.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
  • Diabetes: 15.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 21.4% (13.4–29.4%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (7.3–18.5%)
  • Unemployment: 6.7% (1.1–13.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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