Matthews Church

The community around Matthews Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Obesity: 47.0%
• Food Insecurity: 35.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
• Diabetes: 23.1%
• Social Isolation: 36.2%
• Child Poverty: 33.3% (13.4–53.2%)
• Poverty Rate: 26.5% (16.8–36.2%)
• Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.5%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (8.7–19.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Matthews Church

• Chavis Church — 0.3 mi away
• The Door of Faith Church — 0.4 mi away
• New Vision Original Free Will Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Poplar Hill Church — 1.4 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Cornerstone Church of God — 1.7 mi away
• Huggins Church — 1.7 mi away
• Spirit and Truth Church — 1.7 mi away
• Hemingway Church of Christ — 1.9 mi away