Greater St James Baptist Church
Greater St James Baptist Church is a church at 1627 N 44th St in Baton Rouge, LA 70802. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge.
1627 N 44th St, Baton Rouge, LA, 70802Phone: (225) 926-3176 · Website: http://www.fortyfourstjamesbaptistchurch.vpweb.com
Greater St James Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Greater St James Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 48.4%
- Food Insecurity: 47.0%
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.1%
- Diabetes: 25.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.3%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (1.7–15.4%)
- Depression: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 21.5% (11.3–31.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater St James Baptist Church
- Holy Ghost Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Hosanna Ministries Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- St Peter Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Well Church — 0.3 mi away
- Belfair Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Berean Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St Peter Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Belfair Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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