Saint Matthew Mission

Saint Matthew Mission is a Russian Orthodox church in Bethel, AK 99559. It is one of 12 churches in Bethel.

Bethel, AK, 99559

Saint Matthew Mission is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 49 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Alaska — 2,098 across the United States on The Church Map.

Orthodoxy has carried the worship of the ancient church essentially unbroken since the first centuries, and it has never let the rest of us settle for a gospel that only forgives — it insists God intends to make his people like himself. Its liturgy, its icons, and its theology of the Trinity are wells the whole church keeps returning to.

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The community around Saint Matthew Mission

It takes 7.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 36.1%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
  • Food Insecurity: 23.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
  • Transportation Barriers: 14.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.7% (11.0–18.5%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%
  • Unemployment: 6.0% (3.1–8.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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