Greater St Matthews Baptist
Greater St Matthews Baptist is a church at 406 Summerwood Ave in Memphis, TN 38109-6744. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis.
406 Summerwood Ave, Memphis, TN, 38109-6744Phone: (901) 785-7561 · Website: http://greaterstmatthewchurch.com
Greater St Matthews Baptist is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,871 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 71,417 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.
Find Greater St Matthews Baptist on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Greater St Matthews Baptist
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 51.1%
- Child Poverty: 43.7% (24.1–63.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.4%
- Poverty Rate: 32.0% (22.2–41.8%)
- Diabetes: 26.9%
- Unemployment: 15.7% (6.3–25.1%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.9% (10.6–21.2%)
- Depression: 23.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
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- Greater Lakeview Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Rising Sun Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- New Nonconnah Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Joyner Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Greater Lakeview Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Rising Sun Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away