Saint Matthews United Methodist Church
Saint Matthews United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 101 Avon Beach Road in Dundalk, MD 21222. It is one of 66 churches in Dundalk, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
101 Avon Beach Road, Dundalk, MD, 21222Saint Matthews United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 933 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Maryland — 25,370 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 Saint Matthews United Methodist 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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.
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
- Food Insecurity: 23.2%
- Poverty Rate: 22.2% (9.3–35.1%)
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
- Depression: 24.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (1.8–21.2%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.1–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Matthews United Methodist Church
- Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Saint John Baptist Church (historical) — 0.2 mi away
- Gospel Tabernacle Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of LaVang Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friends Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wateredge Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.8 mi away
- Community of Christ Church — 0.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Patapsco United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Dundalk Free Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Graceland Park United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Baltimore, MD
- Edgemere Free Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away in Sparrows Point, MD
- Lodge Forest United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Sparrows Point, MD