St Matthew Baptist Church
St Matthew Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2020 East 14th Street in Lubbock, TX 79403. It is one of 355 churches in Lubbock, and one of 68 Baptist congregations in the city.
2020 East 14th Street, Lubbock, TX, 79403Website: http://www.stmatthewbaptistchurch.com/
St Matthew Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,377 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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.
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The community around St Matthew Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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: 47.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.0%
- Diabetes: 24.0%
- Unemployment: 15.9% (5.4–26.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 27.0% (16.7–37.3%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.8% (10.0–25.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lubbock city is served by 216 churches — about one congregation for every 1,183 residents.
Churches near St Matthew Baptist Church
- Ever Increasing Grace Ministries — 0 mi away
- Greater Saint Mark Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Wesley Memorial Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- New Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ford Memorial Church of God In Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Faith First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Dwelling Place Church — 0.4 mi away
- Igelsia de Dios — 0.4 mi away
- Messiah Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Saint Mark Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Unity Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Lyon's Chapel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away