Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church is a Episcopal church at 64 University Terrace in Athens, OH 45701. It is one of 50 churches in Athens.
64 University Terrace, Athens, OH, 45701Good Shepherd Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 166 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Ohio — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 8 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than 4 in 5 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: 87.7%
- Poverty Rate: 84.3%
- Social Isolation: 49.3%
- Food Insecurity: 43.7%
- Depression: 40.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 29.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Unemployment: 10.8% (6.2–15.4%)
- Obesity: 38.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
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 Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
- Reach Out On Campus — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ the King Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Athens Catholic Community — 0.3 mi away
- Brookfield Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ the King University Parish — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul’s Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Grace Episcopal Church — 20.8 mi away in Pomeroy, OH
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 21.2 mi away in McArthur, OH
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 22 mi away in Logan, OH