Saint James Lutheran Church
Saint James Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 228 Jalapa Road in Newberry, SC 29108. It is one of 63 churches in Newberry, and one of 9 Lutheran congregations in the city.
228 Jalapa Road, Newberry, SC, 29108Saint James Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Saint James Lutheran Church
It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 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.
- Food Insecurity: 35.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.3%
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.7%
- Poverty Rate: 26.8% (16.5–37.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.5%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.7% (9.4–20.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint James Lutheran Church
- Big Beaverdam Church — 1.3 mi away
- Old Beaver Dam Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Sweet Springs AME Church — 3 mi away
- Beth Eden Lutheran Church — 3.6 mi away
- Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.6 mi away in Kinards, SC
- Bush River Missionary Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Zion Church — 4.4 mi away in Kinards, SC
- Calvary Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Queen Memorial Presbyterian Church — 4.5 mi away
- Bush River Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away