Saint James United Methodist Church
Saint James United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Monroe, LA 71202. It is one of 221 churches in Monroe, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.
Monroe, LA, 71202Saint James United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 449 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Saint James United Methodist 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 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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: 86.5%
- Obesity: 57.4%
- Food Insecurity: 53.6%
- Poverty Rate: 51.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 33.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 25.8%
- Unemployment: 16.1% (5.2–27.1%)
- Depression: 24.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Monroe city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 472 residents.
Churches near Saint James United Methodist Church
- Triumph Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Refuge Healing Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Matthew Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Matthews Church of Christ Holiness — 0.3 mi away
- World Love Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Stone Avenue Methodist Protestant Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lighthouse Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Jackson Street Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Monroe Christian Center — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Stone Avenue Methodist Protestant Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- Martin Temple Christian Methodist — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away