St James Lutheran Church

St James Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1100 Stanley Street in Belle Fourche, SD 57717. It is one of 17 churches in Belle Fourche.

1100 Stanley Street, Belle Fourche, SD, 57717

St James Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 290 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across South Dakota — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.

Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.

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The community around St James Lutheran Church

It takes 2.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.

  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.8% (12.7–32.8%)
  • Unemployment: 9.0% (3.8–14.3%)
  • Obesity: 36.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.1%

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

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