Saint Matthew Baptist Church
Saint Matthew Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Merced, CA 95341. It is one of 117 churches in Merced, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.
Merced, CA, 95341Saint Matthew Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,885 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 71,872 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 Saint Matthew Baptist 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. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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.
- Food Insecurity: 46.9%
- Child Poverty: 44.9% (28.7–61.1%)
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.2%
- Poverty Rate: 32.6% (22.7–42.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.6%
- Unemployment: 15.3% (8.2–22.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.3%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Obesity: 39.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (8.7–19.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Merced city is served by 56 churches — about one congregation for every 1,054 residents.
Churches near Saint Matthew Baptist Church
- New Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Worship Center Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion — 0.2 mi away
- Apostolic Tabernacle UPC of Merced - West Campus — 0.2 mi away
- Mt Pisgah Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Assembly Of God — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Solo Un Camino — 0.4 mi away
- Merced Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Times Of Refreshing — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Merced Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Friendship Missionary Baptist — 0.5 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away