Saint James Freewill Baptist Church
Saint James Freewill Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Phenix City, AL 36867. It is one of 152 churches in Phenix City, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
Phenix City, AL, 36867Shares a ministry location with Faithful Missionary Baptist Church and His Gathering House.
Saint James Freewill 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 Freewill Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 82.4%
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.5%
- Food Insecurity: 40.5%
- Poverty Rate: 40.2% (26.0–54.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.3% (10.9–29.7%)
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (0.4–12.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Phenix City city is served by 55 churches — about one congregation for every 514 residents.
Churches near Saint James Freewill Baptist Church
- His Gathering House — 0 mi away
- Faithful Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- New Beginning Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- North Phenix Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Phenix Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Freedom Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Primitive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Baptist Center Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- GSGMBC-Historic Site — 0.4 mi away in Columbus, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Beginning Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- North Phenix Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Primitive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Baptist Center Church — 0.4 mi away
- Westside Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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