St Matthews Baptist Church
St Matthews Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2001 Brooks Dr in District Heights, MD 20747-1057. It is one of 69 churches in District Heights, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
2001 Brooks Dr, District Heights, MD, 20747-1057Phone: +12403922324 · Website: https://www.stmatthewsbaptist.org/
St Matthews Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,023 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Maryland — 71,872 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 Matthews Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 46.7%
- Food Insecurity: 27.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.2%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (2.4–15.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (6.5–21.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
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- Pillar of Truth Bible Church — 0.4 mi away in Capitol Heights, MD
- Faith in Christ International — 0.4 mi away in Capitol Heights, MD
- Refuge Baptist Assembly — 0.4 mi away in Suitland, MD
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