Saint James Missionary Baptist Church
Saint James Missionary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 4916 High St in Fort Smith, AR 72904-4448. It is one of 217 churches in Fort Smith, and one of 3 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
4916 High St, Fort Smith, AR, 72904-4448Service times
Sunday School | 9:30 AM (as listed)
Phone: +14797825756 · Website: https://www.stjamesbc.org/
Saint James Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,140 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arkansas — 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 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 50.0% (34.1–65.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.5%
- Poverty Rate: 37.9% (26.9–48.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.3% (16.1–34.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.9%
- Diabetes: 19.7%
- Obesity: 43.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (2.3–12.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint James Missionary Baptist Church
- Spradling Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mission Point Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Northside Church of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Maranatha Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
- Fort Smith Christian Center — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Spradling Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mission Point Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Heart of Worship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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