St Matthew AME Church
St Matthew AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 41124 N 1st St in Ponchatoula, LA 70454-2486. It is one of 50 churches in Ponchatoula.
41124 N 1st St, Ponchatoula, LA, 70454-2486Phone: (985) 386-4667 · Website: https://www.ame-church.com
St Matthew AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 449 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around St Matthew AME Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Food Insecurity: 23.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Poverty Rate: 18.4% (8.8–28.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Matthew AME Church
- New Covenant Apostolic Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
- Full Faith Christian Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Good Hope Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Ponchatoula — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Eastside Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Bethel Independent Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Tasker African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel — 1.2 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.1 mi away in Hammond, LA
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church Number 1 — 3.2 mi away in Hammond, LA
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