Saint James Baptist Church
Saint James Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Swainsboro, GA 30401. It is one of 52 churches in Swainsboro, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Swainsboro, GA, 30401Saint James Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,867 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,874 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 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of 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.
- Poverty Rate: 31.8% (19.3–44.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Food Insecurity: 30.5%
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Obesity: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.3% (11.0–25.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.3%
- Unemployment: 11.9% (2.6–21.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint James Baptist Church
- Williams Grove Church of the Living God — 0.2 mi away
- New Mount African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victory Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Grove Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away in Midville, GA
- New Hope World Outreach — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- Lester Grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- United Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- United Primitive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Harvester Baptist Mission — 1.3 mi away
- Southside Independent Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Hillcrest Baptist Church — 2 mi away
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