St. James Missionary Baptist Church
St. James Missionary Baptist Church is a church at 278 Preston St in Jackson, TN 38301-4987. It is one of 213 churches in Jackson.
278 Preston St, Jackson, TN, 38301-4987Phone: +17318681516 · Website: http://stjamesmbc.net/
St. James Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,860 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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 St. James Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half 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.
- Child Poverty: 67.9% (48.7–84.6%)
- Obesity: 55.8%
- Poverty Rate: 45.2% (32.2–58.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.4%
- Diabetes: 23.8%
- Unemployment: 15.3% (4.7–25.8%)
- Depression: 28.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.8% (9.6–24.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. James Missionary Baptist Church
- Cumberland Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Knee Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Assembly Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Salem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Jerusalem Christian Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Unity Temple Church — 0.4 mi away
- TN Central Jurisdiction COGIC — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cumberland Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Progressive Community Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Vision Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away