Central Venue
Central Venue is a Methodist church at 29 E. Carpenter St. in Athens, OH 45701. It is one of 50 churches in Athens.
We are a congregation who loves our community and who desires to see the love of Jesus transform our town and our world.
We are a vital and growing community of people in Athens, Ohio who are seeking a deeper relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
29 E. Carpenter St., Athens, OH, 45701Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (740) 592-2389 · Website: https://www.centralavenue.net/
Central Venue is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,576 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Central Venue
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 74.7%
- Poverty Rate: 60.0%
- Social Isolation: 45.3%
- Depression: 37.8%
- Food Insecurity: 29.5% (20.1–38.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.5% (14.1–24.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (4.1–13.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.1% (12.9–22.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Athens city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 1,235 residents.
Churches near Central Venue
- Saint Paul’s Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Brookfield Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Reach Out On Campus — 0.3 mi away
- Christ the King University Parish — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Offices of Central Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Richland United Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Clarks Chapel United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Canaanville United Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away