Bellows Avenue Church of the Nazarene
Bellows Avenue Church of the Nazarene is a church in Columbus, OH 43223. It is one of 1,054 churches in Columbus.
Columbus, OH, 43223Website: https://www.lowerlightschurch.org/
Bellows Avenue Church of the Nazarene is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 372 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Ohio — 4,365 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Bellows Avenue Church of the Nazarene
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 47.3% (33.0–61.6%)
- Social Isolation: 43.6%
- Food Insecurity: 40.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.2%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Depression: 31.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (6.9–26.1%)
- Unemployment: 10.7% (4.1–17.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Columbus city is served by 545 churches — about one congregation for every 1,492 residents.
Churches near Bellows Avenue Church of the Nazarene
- First Pentecostal Gospel Church — 0.1 mi away
- Progressive Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Triumphant Christian Center Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pentecostal Saints of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westside Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Inner City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Open Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Sons of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Avondale United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Warren Avenue Church of the Nazarene — 2.3 mi away
- Frank Road Church of the Nazarene — 2.6 mi away
- Dulce Refugio Wesleyan Church — 2.8 mi away
- Wilson Avenue Church of the Nazarene — 3.4 mi away