Saint James Baptist Church

Saint James Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sterlington, LA 71280. It is one of 19 churches in Sterlington, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.

Sterlington, LA, 71280

Saint 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 Saint James Baptist Church

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Obesity: 40.6%
  • Social Isolation: 36.3%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
  • Depression: 26.1%
  • Child Poverty: 23.3% (8.9–37.7%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 19.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.0% (9.6–24.3%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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