Saint James Baptist Church
Saint James Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Waycross, GA 31503. It is one of 163 churches in Waycross, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
Waycross, GA, 31503Saint 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 — 71,872 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 49.1%
- Child Poverty: 45.0% (27.8–62.4%)
- Social Isolation: 41.5%
- Food Insecurity: 40.5%
- Poverty Rate: 36.9% (22.4–51.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 22.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.3% (9.2–23.5%)
- Unemployment: 9.9% (0.9–19.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Waycross city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 161 residents.
Churches near Saint James Baptist Church
- Austin Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Little Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westside Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Crawford Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses — 0.6 mi away
- Full Gospel Mission — 0.7 mi away
- Gilchrist Park Church of God of Prophecy — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.7 mi away
- Maranatha Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Crawford Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- The Pentecostals Of Waycross — 0.8 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 1 mi away