St Matthews Baptist Church
St Matthews Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 208 Blackwell Rd in Atkins, AR 72823-7572. It is one of 28 churches in Atkins, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission statement remains unchanged. It declares our purpose as “Loving and Leading people into a Growing relationship with Jesus.”
St. Matthews Baptist Church is a Protestant Christian Church in the free-church tradition. We don’t require our members to sign or recite any creed. We unite around the simple Christian confession: “Jesus Christ is Lord!
Serving since 1983
208 Blackwell Rd, Atkins, AR, 72823-7572Service times
Sunday 10:30am (as listed)
Phone: (501) 354-3881 · Website: http://smbclouisville.org/
St Matthews Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,152 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arkansas — 71,418 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
Ministries at St Matthews Baptist Church
- Preschool & Kindergarten Ministry
- Women’s Ministries
- HUGG Ministry
Find St Matthews Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around St Matthews Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 43.3%
- Child Poverty: 35.6% (17.7–53.6%)
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Poverty Rate: 23.0% (14.8–31.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.9%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (4.6–15.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Matthews Baptist Church
- Pilgrim Rest #2 Missionary Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Union Grove Free Will Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Atkins First Assembly of God — 5 mi away
- Bethany Missionary Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- United Pentecostal Church — 5.3 mi away
- Church of the Assumption — 5.3 mi away
- Memorial Presbyterian — 5.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 5.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away
- Atkins First Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pilgrim Rest #2 Missionary Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Union Grove Free Will Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Bethany Missionary Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Atkins First Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away
- Oak Grove Freewill Baptist — 5.6 mi away