Greater St. James Missionary Baptist Church
Greater St. James Missionary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 14455 4th St in Tickfaw, LA 70466. It is one of 28 churches in Tickfaw.
Our mission here at Greater St. James Missionary Baptist Church is to be a Ministry lifting Jesus Christ that He may draw all men by equipping the saints and evangelizing the sinner.
St. James Baptist Church, which later became Greater St. James Missionary Baptist Church over the years, had its beginning in the early 1900s as Sunday school meetings.
Serving since 1918
14455 4th St, Tickfaw, LA, 70466Phone: +19855424818 · Website: https://www.greaterstjamesmbc.com/new-page-1
Greater St. James Missionary 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 Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 56.9% (41.2–72.6%)
- Social Isolation: 42.5%
- Food Insecurity: 31.6%
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Poverty Rate: 29.7% (19.1–40.3%)
- Depression: 28.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 11.5% (1.8–21.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater St. James Missionary Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church of Tickfaw — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Pompeii Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Kingdom Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Hammond, LA
- Agape Fellowship Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Mother of Grace Church — 0.8 mi away
- Nesom Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Good News Fellowship Church — 1.5 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 1.5 mi away
- Countryside Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Tickfaw — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Natalbany Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Natalbany, LA
- New Hope Baptist Church Of Natalbany Louisiana — 2.4 mi away
- Rock Zion Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away