Central Baptist Church
Central Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 200 South Prairieville Street in Athens, TX 75751. It is one of 88 churches in Athens, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
200 South Prairieville Street, Athens, TX, 75751Central Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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 Central Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and about 1 in 5 working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.2% (12.5–27.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Athens city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 313 residents.
Churches near Central Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Science Church — 0.3 mi away
- Three Sixteen Church — 0.3 mi away
- Allen Chapel AME Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lake Community Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- New Beginnings Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.6 mi away
- Athens Church of God — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- West Athens Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away