Greater St Matthew's Baptist Church
Greater St Matthew's Baptist Church is a church at 183 Smith Ln in Houma, LA 70360-4031. It is one of 87 churches in Houma.
183 Smith Ln, Houma, LA, 70360-4031Phone: (985) 872-9543 · Website: http://www.churchfinder.com/.../houma/greater-saint-matthews-baptist-church
Greater St Matthew's Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,420 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 Greater St Matthew's Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Food Insecurity: 29.5%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Poverty Rate: 24.3% (11.6–37.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (1.1–18.1%)
- Depression: 26.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater St Matthew's Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church of Houma — 0.2 mi away
- Dularge Community Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Victory Life — 0.2 mi away
- 4ta. Iglesia Pentecostal Unida Hispana, Inc — 0.3 mi away
- New Rising Sun Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Connection Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pleasant View Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt. Vernon Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away in Gray, LA
- St. Barnabas Mission Station — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Houma — 0.2 mi away
- New Rising Sun Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Christ Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- New Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away