Saint Matthews Baptist Church

Saint Matthews Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baxley, GA 31513. It is one of 79 churches in Baxley, and one of 29 Baptist congregations in the city.

Baxley, GA, 31513

Saint Matthews Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,867 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 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 Matthews Baptist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. 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. 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: 40.2%
  • Social Isolation: 36.7%
  • Child Poverty: 35.2% (16.6–53.8%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.5%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.3%
  • Diabetes: 17.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 21.3% (10.4–32.3%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.3%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.7% (6.7–22.6%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Baxley city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 159 residents.

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