St Matthew Ame Church
St Matthew Ame Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1610 Murphy St in Shreveport, LA 71103-3051. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport, and one of 3 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Saint Matthew has been a House of Worship and pillar in the community for over 80 years, serving the Oranges, Essex County, and broader New Jersey community.
Serving since 1942 · Part of First Episcopal District
1610 Murphy St, Shreveport, LA, 71103-3051Service times
Tuesday · 6:30 PM (as listed)
Phone: (318) 221-4593 · Website: https://www.stmatthewame.org/
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.
Ministries at St Matthew Ame Church
- Food Distribution
- Church School
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The community around St Matthew Ame Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 50.8%
- Food Insecurity: 43.7%
- Poverty Rate: 39.8% (25.0–54.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.0%
- Diabetes: 26.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.4%
- Unemployment: 16.7% (6.7–27.0%)
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.7%
- Depression: 24.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Matthew Ame Church
- The Kingdom Center - Shreveport/Bossier — 0.1 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Demonstration Church — 0.3 mi away
- Evergreen Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hurricane Bluff Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Mission Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Magnolia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lane Chapel CME — 0.4 mi away
- Hebrew Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Ringgold, LA
- Little Union Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First Methodist Church Shreveport — 1 mi away
- Central Free Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Noel Memorial UMC — 1.4 mi away
- Westside Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.9 mi away
- St Mary AME Church — 2.2 mi away
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