Saint James Baptist Church
Saint James Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Houston, TX 77016. It is one of 3,337 churches in Houston, and one of 724 Baptist congregations in the city.
Houston, TX, 77016Saint James Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,419 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 46.6%
- Child Poverty: 43.4% (30.7–60.0%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 35.8% (24.5–47.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 33.5%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Poverty Rate: 28.8% (17.5–40.1%)
- Unemployment: 11.2% (4.2–18.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint James Baptist Church
- Newlight Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Vine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Baptist Church Northside — 0.2 mi away
- Northside Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Expectations from God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jordan River Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Creston Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Jesus Way Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Newlight Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Vine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Northside Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away