Saint Matthews Baptist Church
Saint Matthews Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Boyce, LA 71409. It is one of 20 churches in Boyce, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Boyce, LA, 71409Saint Matthews Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 46.5%
- Social Isolation: 42.6%
- Food Insecurity: 38.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.2%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Depression: 27.5%
- Poverty Rate: 26.4% (14.6–38.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (3.9–16.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Matthews Baptist Church
- First Evening Star Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- Pilgrim Rest Church — 4.1 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- Air Base Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- Heritage Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- Second Evening Star Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- England Park Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- Calvary Church — 4.4 mi away in Colfax, LA
- Second Evening Star Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- Community Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Alexandria, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Evening Star Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- Air Base Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- Heritage Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- Second Evening Star Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Alexandria, LA