St Matthew Baptist Church
St Matthew Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 812 E 7th Ave in Oakdale, LA 71463. It is one of 28 churches in Oakdale, and one of 2 Southern Baptist congregations in the city.
812 E 7th Ave, Oakdale, LA, 71463Phone: (318) 335-0172 · Website: https://www.baptistmessage.com/author/baptist-message/page/192/
St Matthew 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 — 71,417 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 Matthew Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, 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 the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 30.0% (16.4–43.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 26.5%
- Unemployment: 18.9% (1.8–36.1%)
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Matthew Baptist Church
- Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Hayes Chapel AME Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of God In Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Oak Hill Community Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Isrealite Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. Peter Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Oakdale Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Victory Bible Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Lions Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Glenmora Baptist Church — 11.4 mi away in Glenmora, LA
- Friendship Baptist Church — 13.3 mi away in Ville Platte, LA