Greater St James Baptist Church
Greater St James Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2016 Belle Street in Alton, IL 62002. It is one of 71 churches in Alton, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
2016 Belle Street, Alton, IL, 62002Phone: (618) 462-8211 · Website: http://www.stjamesalton.com/our-history/
Greater St James Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,417 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 Greater St 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. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 44.3%
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Food Insecurity: 22.5%
- Poverty Rate: 22.5% (10.7–34.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.1%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Alton city is served by 41 churches — about one congregation for every 640 residents.
Churches near Greater St James Baptist Church
- Monroe Memorial Church — 0.1 mi away
- United Fellowship International Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Pentecostal Power Church — 0.3 mi away
- Alton Bible Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Chapel — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Life Church — 0.6 mi away
- North Alton Southern Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- The Bridge — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Peter and Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Highway of Holiness Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- North Alton Southern Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away