James Church
James Church is a Missionary Baptist church in NC 27843.
NC, 27843Phone: (252) 798-1354 · Website: http://jamesmountpilgrimmbc.com/
James Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,576 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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 James Church
It takes 6.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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.
- Child Poverty: 46.3% (28.9–63.7%)
- Obesity: 45.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
- Food Insecurity: 30.7%
- Diabetes: 22.6%
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 26.3% (15.6–36.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (2.5–10.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near James Church
- Merritts Chapel — 1.6 mi away in Oak City, NC
- Jones Chapel Missionary Baptist church — 2.5 mi away in Oak City, NC
- Jones Chapel — 2.5 mi away in Oak City, NC
- Williams Chapel — 2.8 mi away in Oak City, NC
- Long's Chapel Church — 3.4 mi away in Hobgood, NC
- Cherry Church — 3.6 mi away
- Johnandrus Church — 3.6 mi away in Oak City, NC
- Oak City Christian Church — 3.6 mi away in Oak City, NC
- Saint Paul Church — 3.8 mi away in Oak City, NC
- Saint Mark Church — 3.9 mi away in Oak City, NC
More Baptist churches nearby
- Oak City Christian Church — 3.6 mi away in Oak City, NC
- Speed Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away in Speed, NC
- White's Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 7 mi away in Tarboro, NC
- Jones Chapel Baptist Church — 7.5 mi away in Oak City, NC
- Cherry Hill Missionary Baptist — 7.7 mi away in Tarboro, NC