Saint Matthews Episcopal Church
Saint Matthews Episcopal Church is a Episcopal church at 243 Barrow Street in Houma, LA 70360. It is one of 87 churches in Houma.
243 Barrow Street, Houma, LA, 70360Saint Matthews Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 80 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Louisiana — 6,341 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Saint Matthews Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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.
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 34.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Food Insecurity: 22.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Poverty Rate: 18.6% (9.1–28.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8% (6.7–22.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (0.4–18.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Houma city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 2,600 residents.
Churches near Saint Matthews Episcopal Church
- Cathedral of Saint Francis de Sales — 0.3 mi away
- St. Barnabas Mission Station — 0.3 mi away
- Mt. Vernon Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away in Gray, LA
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Horeb Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- El Sembrador Ministerio — 0.5 mi away
- First Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Connection Church — 0.5 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 15 mi away in Thibodaux, LA
- Saint Andrews Episcopal Mission — 18.5 mi away