Saint Matthews Church

The community around Saint Matthews Church

It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Diabetes: 18.1%
• Child Poverty: 30.2% (12.0–49.1%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
• Food Insecurity: 24.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.8% (11.1–24.5%)
• Obesity: 36.8%
• Social Isolation: 31.8%
• Poverty Rate: 21.1% (11.8–30.5%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
• Unemployment: 6.8% (1.6–11.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint Matthews Church

• Jacob Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.8 mi away
• Saint Johns Church — 1.3 mi away
• Zion Ritter Church — 1.9 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 2.2 mi away
• Calvary Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Great Swamp Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
• Gospel Lighthouse Church — 4.6 mi away
• Arm Oak Church — 4.6 mi away in Hardeeville, SC
• Carey Hill Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away
• Family Harvest Ministries — 5.6 mi away