Saint Matthew Lutheran Church
Saint Matthew Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Columbus, OH 43222. It is one of 1,053 churches in Columbus, and one of 35 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Columbus, OH, 43222Service times
- Sunday 8:30am
- Sunday 10:30am
Saint Matthew Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 771 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Ohio — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
Ministries at Saint Matthew Lutheran Church
- Food Pantry
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Latest from St Matthew's YouTube channel: Pentecost 17 Sept 13 2026 (all videos).
The community around Saint Matthew Lutheran Church
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. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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: 89.7%
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Poverty Rate: 42.0% (25.0–58.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.3%
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Depression: 30.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.9%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (4.3–20.4%)
- Unemployment: 7.7% (2.2–13.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Columbus city is served by 545 churches — about one congregation for every 1,492 residents.
Churches near Saint Matthew Lutheran Church
- Avondale United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Stewart Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gospel Light Tabernacle Church — 0.3 mi away
- West Coumadin Clinic — 0.3 mi away
- Westside Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Inner City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Sons of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jericho's — 0.4 mi away
- Franklinton Community of Hope Church — 0.4 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi away
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.6 mi away
- Saint Pauls Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away
- Hilltop Evangelical Lutheran Church — 2.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church — 2.4 mi away