Saint Matthew Baptist Church
Saint Matthew Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Roselle, NJ 07203. It is one of 22 churches in Roselle, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Roselle, NJ, 07203Saint Matthew Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 728 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 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 Saint Matthew Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 44.9% (28.1–62.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 27.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (4.3–13.3%)
- Obesity: 36.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (11.7–27.5%)
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Roselle borough is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 2,250 residents.
Churches near Saint Matthew Baptist Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Bethesda French Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rccg Agape House Ofworship — 0.2 mi away
- Heard Ame Church — 0.2 mi away
- Nia Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Haitian Church Of God Of Roselle — 0.4 mi away
- El Shaddai Ministries — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jesus Christ Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- White Rock Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Linden, NJ
- 2nd Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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