St Matthew Baptist Church
St Matthew Baptist Church is a church at 678 N Jefferson St in Houston, MS 38851-9748. It is one of 69 churches in Houston.
678 N Jefferson St, Houston, MS, 38851-9748Phone: +16624565096 · Website: http://stmatthewbc.org
St Matthew Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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 Matthew Baptist Church
In the few miles around 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 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
- Food Insecurity: 30.9%
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Poverty Rate: 25.7% (17.5–33.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Matthew Baptist Church
- Faith Bible Church — 0.1 mi away
- House of Mercy Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Unity Temple Church of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Houston Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- North Jackson Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Houston Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Saxon Memorial Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Wine Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Parkway Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Houston Second Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- New Parkersburg Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
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