St Matthew Baptist Church
St Matthew Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 4511 S State St in Chicago, IL 60609-3758. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to assist individuals in cultivating a personal connection with God and deepening their understanding of the Bible.
St. Matthew Baptist Church is dedicated to preaching and promoting a deep and personal relationship with God.
4511 S State St, Chicago, IL, 60609-3758Phone: (773) 285-7050 · Website: https://stmatthewbaptistchurch.org/
St Matthew Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 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 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third have no one they feel they can count on, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 74.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.1%
- Food Insecurity: 34.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.5%
- Unemployment: 24.3% (8.2–40.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
- Obesity: 41.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Poverty Rate: 24.1% (7.7–40.5%)
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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