Saint James Baptist Church
Saint James Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lawton, OK 73501. It is one of 210 churches in Lawton, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lawton, OK, 73501Saint James Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,607 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Oklahoma — 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 about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About 2 in 3 the people here live below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 86.9%
- Poverty Rate: 62.5%
- Obesity: 58.7%
- Food Insecurity: 52.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.5%
- Diabetes: 27.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.0%
- Unemployment: 23.4% (16.5–30.3%)
- Social Isolation: 34.5%
- Depression: 27.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (5.5–17.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Lawton city is served by 125 churches — about one congregation for every 603 residents.
Churches near Saint James Baptist Church
- Iglesia De Dios Casa De Oracion — 0.1 mi away
- Open Door Church of God-Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Holy Sanctified Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St John's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.2 mi away
- Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St John's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Elmo Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Galilee Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away