First Refuge United Baptist Church
First Refuge United Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Camden, NJ 08103. It is one of 172 churches in Camden, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
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First Refuge United Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 706 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 71,418 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 First Refuge United Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 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: 49.4%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Unemployment: 21.4% (11.9–30.9%)
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Child Poverty: 30.6% (12.1–49.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 24.3% (13.2–35.4%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (5.6–17.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Camden city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 516 residents.
Churches near First Refuge United Baptist Church
- Rev Calvin Woods Rev — 0.1 mi away
- St. Paul Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Parkside United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Victory Outreach Camden Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Hope AME — 0.2 mi away
- Little Rock Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Christiana Pentecostal de Camden — 0.3 mi away
- Convent of the Domincan Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God and Saints of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Community Church of Faith — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St. Paul Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Little Rock Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Community Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kaighn Avenue Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away