Matthews Chapel

The community around Matthews Chapel

It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.

• Food Insecurity: 26.8%
• Diabetes: 18.9%
• Unemployment: 16.0% (7.7–24.4%)
• Obesity: 42.1%
• Social Isolation: 37.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
• Poverty Rate: 23.2% (14.5–31.9%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.5%
• Depression: 25.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Matthews Chapel

• Darlington Church — 0.9 mi away
• Wesley Chapel — 2.1 mi away
• Days Chapel — 3.4 mi away in Clinton, LA
• Black Creek Church — 3.6 mi away
• Darlington United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Mitchell Church — 4.8 mi away
• New Star Church — 5 mi away
• Clear Creek African Methodist Episcopal Church — 5.1 mi away in Clinton, LA
• Clear Creek Methodist Church — 5.7 mi away in Clinton, LA
• Saint Johns Church — 5.9 mi away in Clinton, LA