St Matthews United Methodist Church
St Matthews United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 201 Shady Rest Rd in Morganton, NC 28655-4637. It is one of 160 churches in Morganton, and one of 5 United Methodist congregations in the city.
We live out our mission by loving God and loving others.
The Mission of St. Matthews UMC is to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
201 Shady Rest Rd, Morganton, NC, 28655-4637Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: +18284375420 · Website: https://stmatthewsmorganton.org/
St Matthews United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,294 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 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.
Ministries at St Matthews United Methodist Church
- Open Hearts Bakery
- Backpack Food Ministry
- S.M.I.L.E. Program
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The community around St Matthews United Methodist 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. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Child Poverty: 44.7% (29.9–59.8%)
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Poverty Rate: 25.8% (16.9–34.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
- Food Insecurity: 21.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (12.8–24.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Depression: 26.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Matthews United Methodist Church
- Morganton Bluegrass Church — 0.4 mi away
- Morganton Wesleyan Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bethel Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
- Brookwood Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Thrive Church — 1.1 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.1 mi away
- Mission Church — 1.1 mi away
- Morganton Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Summit Community Church — 1.3 mi away
- Heritage Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Slades Chapel AME Zion Church — 1.6 mi away
- Gaston Chapel AME Church — 1.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Salem United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- North Morganton United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
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