Saint Matthews Episcopal Church
Saint Matthews Episcopal Church is a church in Chester, WV 26034. It is one of 9 churches in Chester.
Chester, WV, 26034Saint Matthews Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 54 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across West Virginia — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Saint Matthews Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 46.0%
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Depression: 29.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Poverty Rate: 27.2% (17.5–36.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.9%
- Diabetes: 17.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (4.8–18.3%)
- Unemployment: 6.8% (1.9–11.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Matthews Episcopal Church
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0 mi away
- Chester First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Parish Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Westminster United Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Chester Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away in East Liverpool, OH
- Grace Baptist Chapel — 0.8 mi away in East Liverpool, OH
- Christian Life Tabernacle — 0.8 mi away in East Liverpool, OH
More Anglican churches nearby
- Saint Stephens Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away in East Liverpool, OH
- Episcopal Church of the Ascension — 4.7 mi away in Wellsville, OH
- Saint Thomas Episcopal Church — 14.5 mi away in Weirton, WV
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