St. Matthew Baptist Church (SMBC Lancaster)
St. Matthew Baptist Church (SMBC Lancaster) is a Baptist church at 1020 West Belt Line Road in Lancaster, TX 75146. It is one of 92 churches in Lancaster, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
St. Matthew Baptist Church is a dynamic church located in Lancaster, TX. Our beliefs are based on the Bible and centered on Jesus Christ.
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1020 West Belt Line Road, Lancaster, TX, 75146Phone: (972) 275-1601 · Website: https://www.stmatthewbchurch.org/
Shares a ministry location with First Presbyterian Church and New Life Fellowship Church.
St. Matthew Baptist Church (SMBC Lancaster) is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,418 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.
Ministries at St. Matthew Baptist Church (SMBC Lancaster)
- Children's Ministries
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The community around St. Matthew Baptist Church (SMBC Lancaster)
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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 42.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.0%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.1% (6.9–23.2%)
- Unemployment: 8.7% (2.1–15.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.1% (6.8–29.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lancaster city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 573 residents.
Churches near St. Matthew Baptist Church (SMBC Lancaster)
- New Life Fellowship Church — 0 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- First Christian Church of Lancaster — 0.3 mi away
- Destination Church — 0.3 mi away
- Community Outreach Church Of God In Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Martins Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Martins Church — 0.7 mi away
- God's Final Warning Ministries — 0.8 mi away
- Pure Word Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mt. Horeb-Belt Line — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Crossroads Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Lancaster Park Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Outreach Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Anointed Fellowship Bible Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Lancaster — 1.1 mi away