Saint James Baptist Church
Saint James Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Hazlehurst, MS 39083. It is one of 49 churches in Hazlehurst, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
Hazlehurst, MS, 39083Website: http://goca.org
Saint James Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,482 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,352 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 46.7%
- Poverty Rate: 39.4%
- Food Insecurity: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
- Unemployment: 11.4% (1.9–20.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (7.7–19.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Hazlehurst city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 617 residents.
Churches near Saint James Baptist Church
- Mount Zion Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Martin of Tours Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hazlehurst United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Temple Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
- Damascus Church of Christ Holiness — 0.9 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Life Cathedral of Worship — 1.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Damascus Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Shady Grove Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Spring Hill Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Wesson, MS
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