St. James Missionary Baptist Church
St. James Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 345 Bagley Street in Pontiac, MI 48341. It is one of 154 churches in Pontiac, and one of 27 Baptist congregations in the city.
345 Bagley Street, Pontiac, MI, 48341St. James Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,851 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Michigan — 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 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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: 45.6%
- Child Poverty: 41.2% (21.9–60.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
- Diabetes: 18.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
- Poverty Rate: 23.8% (14.4–33.2%)
- Unemployment: 9.6% (4.8–14.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Pontiac city is served by 134 churches — about one congregation for every 462 residents.
Churches near St. James Missionary Baptist Church
- Providence Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Liberty Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rutley Rosezell — 0.2 mi away
- Newman Church — 0.2 mi away
- Newman African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Joseph Chapel & Shrine of the Immaculate Heart of Mary — 0.4 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- True Church House of Prayer to All Nations — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Providence Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Liberty Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Springfield Missionary — 0.6 mi away