St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church
St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church is a church at 870 LA-154 in Athens, LA 71003-3103. It is one of 4 churches in Athens.
870 LA-154, Athens, LA, 71003-3103Phone: +13182581110 · Website: http://stmatthewbaptistchurch.com
St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church
It takes 6.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 51.0% (36.3–65.7%)
- Obesity: 49.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Poverty Rate: 36.0% (26.5–45.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 35.9%
- Diabetes: 23.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
- Depression: 26.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church
- Walker Church — 2.4 mi away
- Springville United Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Gibsland, LA
- Center Mission Church of God — 3.4 mi away
- Sanctified Church — 3.5 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Gibsland, LA
- Pine Grove Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Gibsland, LA
- Faith Memorial Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Gibsland, LA
- Piney Grove Church — 4.9 mi away
- Mount Moriah Church — 5.2 mi away