New St James Baptist Church
New St James Baptist Church is a church at 1010 Richwood Road 1 in Monroe, LA 71202-6886. It is one of 221 churches in Monroe.
1010 Richwood Road 1, Monroe, LA, 71202-6886Phone: +13183878818 · Website: http://www.yellowpages.com/monroe-la/mip/new-st-james-baptist-church-675131
New 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 New St James Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than 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.
- Child Poverty: 75.5%
- Food Insecurity: 59.0%
- Obesity: 57.6%
- Poverty Rate: 55.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.6%
- Social Isolation: 44.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 42.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 37.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 31.1%
- Diabetes: 25.8%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (2.8–16.6%)
- Depression: 25.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New St James Baptist Church
- Greater Free Gift Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- St James Number Two Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Peter Rock Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Pleasant Green Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Richwood, LA
- Logtown Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Richwood, LA
- Dellwood Church Of God — 1.4 mi away
- New Life Full Gospel Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- New Hope Pentecostal Church — 1.5 mi away
- New Antioch Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Free Gift Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Peter Rock Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- New Life Full Gospel Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away