West Athens Baptist Church
West Athens 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, 75751Shares a ministry location with Gates Community Church International.
West Athens 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 West Athens 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: 32.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.2% (13.5–35.0%)
- Obesity: 40.4%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Poverty Rate: 20.0% (10.8–29.3%)
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 West Athens Baptist Church
- Gates Community Church International — 0 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Williams Street Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Athens United Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Three Sixteen Church — 0.8 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away
- Christian Science Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Life Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Nolan Valley Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away