Saint James Baptist Church
Saint James Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Texarkana, AR 71854. It is one of 99 churches in Texarkana, and one of 27 Baptist congregations in the city.
Texarkana, AR, 71854Saint James Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,152 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arkansas — 71,420 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
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. More than half of 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: 59.6%
- Obesity: 46.5%
- Food Insecurity: 43.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.9%
- Poverty Rate: 37.9% (25.2–50.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.3%
- Diabetes: 21.9%
- Unemployment: 15.5% (5.9–25.4%)
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Depression: 24.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (7.1–18.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Texarkana city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 717 residents.
Churches near Saint James Baptist Church
- Trinity Temple Church of God In Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Halls United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Gate for the Sheep — 0.5 mi away
- Apostolic Lighthouse — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- Walter Street Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Tower of Power Gospel Ministries — 0.7 mi away
- Beech Street First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Lonoke Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Beech Street First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Lonoke Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- College Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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