Saint Matthews Baptist Church
Saint Matthews Baptist Church is a church in Newton, GA 39870. It is one of 22 churches in Newton.
Newton, GA, 39870Saint 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
It takes 6.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 65.5% (47.6–83.6%)
- Obesity: 46.6%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Poverty Rate: 33.3% (23.1–43.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Diabetes: 22.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.5% (10.6–24.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (2.4–17.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Matthews Baptist Church
- Newton Church — 1.4 mi away
- Assembly of God Church — 1.9 mi away
- Newton Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- First Pleasant Grove Church — 2.4 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church-God — 2.5 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Lakeside Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Travelers Rest Free Will Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Green Grove C.M.E. Church — 4.8 mi away
- Mole Grove Church — 4.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Newton Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Lakeside Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Travelers Rest Free Will Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Zion Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Camilla, GA