First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newark, CA 94560. It is one of 24 churches in Newark.
We are committed to expressing our love relationship with God trough worship and learning to surrender to His will, and by growing in our relationship with Him through daily discipleship.
First Baptist Newark began as a mission church born from the loving sponsor of First Southern Baptist Church of Hayward in 1952. The current congregation is made up of a diverse population of believers and disciples of Jesus Christ in Tri-City and greater bay area.
Part of Southern Baptist Convention
Newark, CA, 94560Service times
- Wednesday 7pm
- Thursday 9am
Shares a ministry location with Iglesia de júbilo church.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,843 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 71,417 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Food Bank
- Overseas Missions
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third have no one they feel they can count on, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Food Insecurity: 21.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Unemployment: 6.0% (2.5–9.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 6,781 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Iglesia de júbilo church — 0 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Solid Rock Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Edward's Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Padre Rafal Duda — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away
- Living Hope — 0.5 mi away
- Newark Community Church — 0.7 mi away
- Newark Christian Center — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Living Hope — 0.5 mi away
- Chinese Independent Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Fremont, CA
- Iglesia Bautista Fuente Eterna Fundamental Independiente — 1.6 mi away in Fremont, CA
- Afghan-American Church of the Bay Area — 2.7 mi away in Fremont, CA
- Bay Area Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Fremont, CA