St James Missionary Baptist Church
St James Missionary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 1882 W Jefferson Blvd in Los Angeles, CA 90018. It is one of 1,570 churches in Los Angeles, and one of 19 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
1882 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90018Phone: (323) 732-0474
St James Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,840 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 71,350 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 St James Missionary 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 a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,400 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.
- Social Isolation: 43.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.5%
- Food Insecurity: 30.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.9%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (4.2–13.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.3% (9.8–26.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0% (12.8–21.5%)
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St James Missionary Baptist Church
- Holy Name of Jesus Church — 0.2 mi away
- Western Avenue Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Thirtieth Street Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Andrew Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Los Angeles Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia De Jesucristo Canaan — 0.3 mi away
- West Side Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Miracle Center Apostolic Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Andrew Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Los Angeles Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Redeemer Missionary Baptist — 0.9 mi away
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