Saint James Episcopal Church
Saint James Episcopal Church is a Episcopal church at 928 Effingham Street in Portsmouth, VA 23704. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 7 Episcopal congregations in the city.
928 Effingham Street, Portsmouth, VA, 23704Saint James Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 277 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Virginia — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Saint James Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand 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.
- Food Insecurity: 30.5%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Obesity: 43.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
- Poverty Rate: 26.5% (16.0–36.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (1.8–14.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near Saint James Episcopal Church
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Fourth Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Central Methodist Episcopal Church (former) — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Bound Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- New St. Mark C.O.G.I.C — 0.3 mi away
- New Mount Olivet Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Monumental United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Wright Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
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