St Matthews Baptist Church
St Matthews Baptist Church is a church at 171 Georgetown Rd in Franklin, LA 70538-7543. It is one of 32 churches in Franklin.
171 Georgetown Rd, Franklin, LA, 70538-7543Phone: +13379234285 · Website: http://stmatthewtn.org
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
It takes 7.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 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.
- Obesity: 49.6%
- Food Insecurity: 35.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.0%
- Diabetes: 22.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.6%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.6%
- Poverty Rate: 23.4% (11.0–35.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Depression: 25.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Matthews Baptist Church
- Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church — 3.1 mi away in Four Corners, LA
- St John Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Jeanerette, LA
- Macedonia Baptist Church Ashton, Louisiana — 4.5 mi away in Baldwin, LA
- Mount Olive Church — 5.2 mi away
- Calvary Pentecostal Church — 5.4 mi away in Jeanerette, LA
- Saint Peter United Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away in Jeanerette, LA
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away
- Saint Helena Catholic Church — 6.5 mi away in Cypremort Point, LA
- Victory Tabernacle — 6.6 mi away in Jeanerette, LA
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Jeanerette, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Jeanerette, LA
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away in Jeanerette, LA
- Baldwin Baptist Mission — 6.9 mi away in Baldwin, LA
- Special Providence Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away in Baldwin, LA
- Saint Mark Baptist Church — 7.9 mi away in Jeanerette, LA
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