Athens Baptist Church
Athens Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Athens, WV 24712. It is one of 6 churches in Athens.
Athens, WV, 24712Athens Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 774 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West Virginia — 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 Athens Baptist Church
It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of adults here carry depression, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Depression: 31.7%
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Athens Baptist Church
- Concord United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Jackson Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Athens church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Whites Chapel — 1.8 mi away in Princeton, WV
- Bethel Church — 2.7 mi away in Princeton, WV
- Covenant Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Princeton, WV
- Church of Christ At Pettry — 3 mi away in Princeton, WV
- Pisgah Church — 3 mi away in Princeton, WV
- Painters Chapel — 3.1 mi away
- Melrose Presbyterian Church — 3.1 mi away in Princeton, WV
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt Jackson Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Covenant Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Princeton, WV
- Pisgah Church — 3 mi away in Princeton, WV
- Johnston Chapel — 3.9 mi away in Princeton, WV
- Maranatha Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Princeton, WV
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