Matthews First Baptist Church

Matthews First Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 185 South Trade Street in Matthews, NC 28105. It is one of 69 churches in Matthews.

First Baptist Matthews fully affirms the Southern Baptist Convention’s doctrinal statement called the "Baptist Faith & Message".

185 South Trade Street, Matthews, NC, 28105

Service times

  • Sunday 10:30am · morning

Phone: (704) 849-0580 · Website: https://www.fbcmatthews.org/

Matthews First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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 Matthews First Baptist 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. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here were born in another country. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 29.5%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Matthews town is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 1,316 residents.

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