Saint James Baptist Church
Saint James Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 144 Martin Luther King Jr Drive Northeast in Baconton, GA 31716. It is one of 10 churches in Baconton.
144 Martin Luther King Jr Drive Northeast, Baconton, GA, 31716Phone: (229) 787-5334 · Website: http://www.stjamesmbc.com/
Saint James Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,418 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
It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Food Insecurity: 20.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.9% (11.9–22.0%)
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Poverty Rate: 16.7% (10.3–23.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint James Baptist Church
- Baconton United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Baconton Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Enon Church — 3 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Weldon Springs Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Albany, GA
- Zion Hill Church — 4.2 mi away
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Mount Calvary Church — 4.5 mi away
- Saint Mary's Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Camilla, GA
- Ephesus Church — 5.1 mi away in Albany, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Baconton Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Salem Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Weldon Springs Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Albany, GA
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Saint Mary's Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Camilla, GA