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 88 churches in Opelika, and one of 15 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. 4,551 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,352 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
- Ministries-harvest Evnglsm — 0.6 mi away
- Truth And Love Ministries Church — 0.6 mi away
- Reach: A Ministry for Children — 0.6 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Providence Presbyterian Church Auburn-Opelika — 0.7 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Opelika First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- PIBO — 0.7 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