Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church
Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 2229 Starling Street, GA, 31520 in Brunswick, GA 31520. It is one of 197 churches in Brunswick, and one of 3 Lutheran congregations in the city.
By God's grace and guidance, we nourish the hungry in body and soul with the Bread of Life.
Serving since 1955
2229 Starling Street, GA, 31520, Brunswick, GA, 31520Service times
Monday-Saturday by Appointment; Sunday, 9:30 am (as listed)
Phone: (912) 265-6814 · Website: https://www.stjameslutheranbrunswick.org/
Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 134 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Georgia — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
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The community around Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 68.6% (51.4–85.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
- Food Insecurity: 29.2%
- Diabetes: 21.5%
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Poverty Rate: 29.8% (18.9–40.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.9% (12.6–27.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (1.8–15.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Brunswick city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 202 residents.
Churches near Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Zion Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Choice Ministries Brunswick — 0.4 mi away
- Worth It Nation International Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Interfaith Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ Written in Heaven — 0.5 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- House of God — 0.6 mi away
- Union City Church — 0.7 mi away
- Greater Hall Temple Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Glory Christian Center — 0.7 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 2.4 mi away
- Messiah Lutheran Church of Brunswick — 4.7 mi away
- Lord of Life Lutheran Church — 6.5 mi away in Saint Simons Island, GA