Saint Matthews Baptist Church
Saint Matthews Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Folkston, GA 31537. It is one of 30 churches in Folkston, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Folkston, GA, 31537Saint 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 52.5% (33.3–71.7%)
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
- Food Insecurity: 32.7%
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.2% (12.9–27.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.5% (18.9–38.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 11.7% (2.6–20.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Matthews Baptist Church
- Pinckney United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Folkston Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- St. Francis of Assisi — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Jerusalem Holiness Church — 1 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Peoples Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Camp Pinckney Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church-Boulougne — 3.7 mi away in Hilliard, FL