St James Ame Church

The community around St James Ame Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Social Isolation: 33.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.9% (8.1–23.8%)
• Diabetes: 15.4%
• Obesity: 39.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
• Food Insecurity: 19.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near St James Ame Church

• First Missionary Baptist Church of Kenansville — 0.1 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
• Grove Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
• Kenansville Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• United Church — 0.9 mi away
• Kenansville United Methodist — 0.9 mi away
• Pearsall Chapel — 3.2 mi away
• West Duplin Church — 3.3 mi away in Warsaw, NC
• Big Zion Church — 3.3 mi away
• Rainbow Chapel — 3.7 mi away in Warsaw, NC