Saint Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church
Saint Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Gulfport, MS 39501. It is one of 161 churches in Gulfport.
Gulfport, MS, 39501Website: http://stmatthewgulfport.tripod.com/
Saint Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 34 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Mississippi — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
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The community around Saint Matthew Evangelical Lutheran 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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 30.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.8% (13.2–30.4%)
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
- Child Poverty: 30.1% (13.8–47.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
- Poverty Rate: 25.2% (15.6–34.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.9%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 11.6% (1.8–22.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Gulfport city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 1,727 residents.
Churches near Saint Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Greater Love Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gulf Gardens Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- St Paul AME Church — 0.6 mi away
- McDowell Memorial Church of God — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Grace Lutheran Church — 3.1 mi away in Long Beach, MS
- Grace Lutheran Church — 4 mi away in Long Beach, MS
- St Matthew Lutheran Church — 5.5 mi away
- Bethel Lutheran Church — 7.3 mi away in Biloxi, MS
- Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd — 8.9 mi away in Biloxi, MS
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