Saint James Missionary Baptist Church
Saint James Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 7105 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, IL 60619. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
7105 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60619Saint James Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 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 Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 2,100 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: 33.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.5%
- Obesity: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 17.7%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (2.7–17.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.7% (11.3–30.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Saint James Missionary Baptist Church
- Divine Church of Prayer — 0.1 mi away
- Martin Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Chicagoland Bible Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Shiloh Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Columbanus Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Moses Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Progressive Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Lamb of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Living To Live Again Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Memorial Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Evening Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Mount Tabor Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Salem Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away