Saint James Church

The community around Saint James Church

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Child Poverty: 43.9% (25.3–62.6%)
• Obesity: 41.7%
• Social Isolation: 33.5%
• Poverty Rate: 25.6% (16.3–35.0%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
• Food Insecurity: 20.8%
• Diabetes: 16.6%
• Depression: 25.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
• Unemployment: 7.8% (1.6–13.9%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint James Church

• Sandhill Missionary Church — 0.6 mi away
• St James AME Zion Church — 2.4 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• Mount Hebron Church — 2.4 mi away
• New Center Church — 2.9 mi away
• First Missionary Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Graham Tabernacle — 3.3 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• Western Prong Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Piney Grove Church — 3.6 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• Pleasant Hill Church — 3.8 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• Grace Church — 3.8 mi away