Saint James Baptist Church
Saint James Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1301 Jones Avenue in Jackson, MS 39204. It is one of 479 churches in Jackson, and one of 104 Baptist congregations in the city.
1301 Jones Avenue, Jackson, MS, 39204Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
Phone: (601) 353-3565 · Website: https://www.greaterstjamesjackson.org/
Saint James Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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: 73.2% (53.3–93.1%)
- Social Isolation: 46.6%
- Food Insecurity: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.0%
- Poverty Rate: 34.3% (15.1–53.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.3%
- Unemployment: 14.9% (5.8–24.1%)
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (11.4–23.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8% (10.8–18.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Jackson city is served by 237 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.
Churches near Saint James Baptist Church
- Davis Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- True Holiness Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.2 mi away
- Nazareth Lee Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom of God in Christ Church — 0.3 mi away
- Smith Chapel Freewill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Third Temple Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rosemont Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- College Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Smith Chapel Freewill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rosemont Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- College Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cherry Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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