Saint James Missionary Baptist Church
Saint James Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1335 Auburn Street in Opelika, AL 36801. It is one of 124 churches in Opelika, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
1335 Auburn Street, Opelika, AL, 36801Website: https://www.dandb.com/businessdirectory/stjamesbaptistchurch...
Saint James Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 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 Missionary Baptist Church
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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 52.1%
- Food Insecurity: 41.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.8%
- Poverty Rate: 34.5% (19.6–49.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.0%
- Diabetes: 24.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.3%
- Unemployment: 14.3% (0.9–27.8%)
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (5.4–17.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Opelika city is served by 23 churches — about one congregation for every 1,207 residents.
Churches near Saint James Missionary Baptist Church
- St Luke AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Southside Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Temple Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Paul AME Church — 0.4 mi away
- Opelika Outreach Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ministries-harvest Evnglsm — 0.6 mi away
- Mustard Seed Faith Center Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Truth And Love Ministries Church — 0.6 mi away
- Nuevo Comienzo Opelika — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Opelika First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away