Saint James Baptist Church
Saint James Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 726 N. Latour Street in Ville Platte, LA 70586. It is one of 45 churches in Ville Platte, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1812
726 N. Latour Street, Ville Platte, LA, 70586Phone: (337) 363-4357
Saint James Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,872 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 Saint James Baptist Church
It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Social Isolation: 34.1%
- Depression: 28.5%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (1.9–14.9%)
- Obesity: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Child Poverty: 23.1% (6.8–39.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint James Baptist Church
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Bayou Chicot Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Morning Pilgrim Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Chicot Church — 3.1 mi away
- Little Union Church — 3.3 mi away
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 5.1 mi away in Pine Prairie, LA
- Pine Prairie Church of Christ — 5.2 mi away in Pine Prairie, LA
- First Ville Platte — 5.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away in Pine Prairie, LA
- Friendship Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away
- Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away
- Disciples Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away
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