Saint Matthews Church

The community around Saint Matthews Church

It takes 4.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Social Isolation: 36.2%
• Child Poverty: 33.9% (17.2–50.5%)
• Depression: 28.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
• Food Insecurity: 21.1%
• Diabetes: 15.1%
• Obesity: 38.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
• Poverty Rate: 21.3% (12.3–30.2%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint Matthews Church

• Little Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
• Faith Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Livonia, LA
• Sunlight Church — 1.7 mi away
• Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini Catholic Church — 1.9 mi away in Livonia, LA
• Place of Refuge Ministries — 2 mi away in Livonia, LA
• Mount Pilgrim Church — 2.3 mi away
• Bethany Church — 3.6 mi away
• Pilgrim Rest Church — 3.8 mi away
• House of Prayer — 4.2 mi away in Maringouin, LA
• First Baptist Church of Maringouin — 4.2 mi away in Maringouin, LA