Saint James Missionary Baptist Church

Saint James Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Elizabeth City, NC 27909. It is one of 93 churches in Elizabeth City, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.

Elizabeth City, NC, 27909

Shares a ministry location with The United House of Prayer for All People.

Saint James Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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 Missionary Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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.

  • Unemployment: 16.4% (5.5–27.4%)
  • Obesity: 41.0%
  • Social Isolation: 37.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.1%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
  • Depression: 24.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.4% (9.2–25.7%)
  • Diabetes: 14.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.4%

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

Elizabeth City city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 482 residents.

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