Saint James Baptist Church BC
Saint James Baptist Church BC is a Baptist church at 1002 W. Carolina Avenue in Bessemer City, NC 28016. It is one of 41 churches in Bessemer City, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Saint James Baptist Church -BC aims to connect believers to Christ. Here, love and discipleship inspire transformation within the community, creating a nurturing environment for spiritual formation.
1002 W. Carolina Avenue, Bessemer City, NC, 28016Phone: (704) 729-6023 · Website: https://www.saintjamesbaptictbc.com/
Saint James Baptist Church BC is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,576 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 71,420 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 BC
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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Social Isolation: 34.0%
- Depression: 27.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.5% (7.7–23.3%)
- Obesity: 37.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Food Insecurity: 18.8%
- Poverty Rate: 17.7% (8.5–26.8%)
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (1.9–10.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint James Baptist Church BC
- Monte Calvario — 0.4 mi away
- St John CHCOG — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Harvest Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Faith Church — 1.1 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Beulah Land Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Sunnyside Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Peoples Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Kings Mountain, NC
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