Saint James Baptist Church
Saint James Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Thomasville, GA 31792. It is one of 107 churches in Thomasville, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
Thomasville, GA, 31792Saint 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
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. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 29.6%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
- Poverty Rate: 25.8% (16.3–35.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.9% (8.5–25.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.0%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (0.1–13.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Thomasville city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 297 residents.
Churches near Saint James Baptist Church
- St Thomas AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Temple Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.4 mi away
- Fellowship & Deliverance Church of God and Christ — 0.5 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Thomas Ame Church — 0.6 mi away
- Thomasville First Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Lukes Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Beginnings Fellowship Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Dawson Street Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
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