St. Matthews Baptist Church

St. Matthews Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 434 Louise Street in Denham Springs, LA 70726. It is one of 81 churches in Denham Springs, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.

434 Louise Street, Denham Springs, LA, 70726

St. 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 St. Matthews Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 33.3%
  • Depression: 27.4%
  • Unemployment: 8.7% (1.0–16.9%)
  • Obesity: 37.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 15.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (6.4–18.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Denham Springs city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 680 residents.

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