Saint James Episcopal Church
Saint James Episcopal Church is a church in Marion, IL 62959. It is one of 73 churches in Marion.
Marion, IL, 62959Saint James Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 147 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Illinois — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Saint James Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 45.4% (30.4–61.0%)
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Poverty Rate: 28.2% (19.6–36.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
- Food Insecurity: 22.0%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (3.4–13.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Marion city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 359 residents.
Churches near Saint James Episcopal Church
- Warder Street Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- high point church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pauls Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Community Chapel Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Free Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Saint Marks Episcopal Church — 11.8 mi away in West Frankfort, IL