Oglethorpe Avenue Church of Christ

Oglethorpe Avenue Church of Christ is a church at 975 Oglethorpe Avenue in Athens, GA 30606. It is one of 130 churches in Athens.

975 Oglethorpe Avenue, Athens, GA, 30606

Phone: +1-706-548-9900 · Website: http://www.thechurchinathens.com/

Oglethorpe Avenue Church of Christ is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 309 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Georgia — 9,607 across the United States on The Church Map.

The Stone-Campbell churches asked American Christians to put down their party names and be simply Christians, and they meant it enough to give up their own. Their plea for one table, and their weekly return to it, is one of the few genuinely American gifts to the church's understanding of itself.

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The community around Oglethorpe Avenue Church of Christ

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 36.6%
  • Food Insecurity: 20.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.6% (12.3–26.9%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
  • Diabetes: 13.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (5.8–18.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance) is served by 88 churches — about one congregation for every 1,398 residents.

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