St Matthews Baptist Church
St Matthews Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 503 S Franklin St in Charleston, MO 63834-1938. It is one of 23 churches in Charleston, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1924
503 S Franklin St, Charleston, MO, 63834-1938Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · worship service
Phone: +15736834337 · Website: http://www.stmatthewsbc.org
St Matthews Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,662 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Missouri — 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.
Ministries at St Matthews Baptist Church
- Prison Ministry
- Street Evangelism
- Men’s Shelter
- Women’s Shelter
- Ancora Hospital
- Food Pantry
- Community Development Center
- Recreation Center
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The community around St Matthews Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 50.8%
- Child Poverty: 43.9% (25.4–62.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.7%
- Poverty Rate: 30.3% (20.8–39.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.8%
- Diabetes: 19.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.7%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
- Depression: 23.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Matthews Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Charleston, Missouri First Assembly Of God — 0.2 mi away
- Perry Chapel AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grand Avenue SDA Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Henry's Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Marks Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Elm Street Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- New Bethel Church — 4.5 mi away
- Ollie Grove Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away in Wilson City, MO
- Wyatt Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away in Wyatt, MO
- First Baptist Church — 9.7 mi away in East Prairie, MO
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