St Matthew Baptist Church
St Matthew Baptist Church is a church at 1534 W Vernon Ave in Los Angeles, CA 90062-1828. It is one of 2,252 churches in Los Angeles.
1534 W Vernon Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90062-1828Phone: (323) 298-0057 · Website: http://www.stmatthewbaptistchurch.com
St Matthew Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,843 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 71,417 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.
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The community around St Matthew Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,700 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.
- Social Isolation: 44.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.7%
- Food Insecurity: 32.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.1%
- Poverty Rate: 16.5% (9.9–23.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (8.2–18.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (3.4–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Matthew Baptist Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- Agape Missionary Bible Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia de Jesucristo Monte de Sión — 0.2 mi away
- Faith In Christ Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Congregational Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ray Of Light M.B.C. — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Cecilias Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- La Fraternidad de Esquipulas de Los Angeles (Iglesia Santa Cecilia) — 0.3 mi away
- Eagle Ministries — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater True Friendship Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mary Magdalene Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Bethel Cathedral — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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