New Life Baptist Church
New Life Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Athens, TX 75751. It is one of 88 churches in Athens, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
Athens, TX, 75751New Life 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 New Life Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.5% (12.9–36.1%)
- Obesity: 41.9%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (12.7–33.9%)
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (2.4–11.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Athens city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 313 residents.
Churches near New Life Baptist Church
- West Athens Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gates Community Church International — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Williams Street Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Athens United Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Three Sixteen Church — 0.9 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mt Providence Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- West Athens Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Nolan Valley Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away