Kaighn Avenue Baptist Church

Kaighn Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 831 Kaighn Ave. in Camden, NJ 08103. It is one of 172 churches in Camden, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.

It is the mission of Kaighn Avenue Baptist Church to advance the kingdom of God and manifest the love of Jesus Christ through developing spiritual enlightenment, social awareness, economic empowerment, saving souls, and proclaiming the lost through loving, forgiving, and healing, using Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible as our foundation.

831 Kaighn Ave., Camden, NJ, 08103

Service times

  • Sunday 10:30am · Worship -

Phone: (856) 541-0695 · Website: https://kaighnavenuebc.org/

Kaighn Avenue 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 — 71,417 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.

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Latest from Kaighn Avenue's YouTube channel: SUNDAY Service 9-13-2026 (all videos).

The community around Kaighn Avenue Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 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 2,200 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.

  • Food Insecurity: 52.2%
  • Social Isolation: 40.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 40.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 37.1% (23.5–50.7%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.4%
  • Transportation Barriers: 26.2%
  • Unemployment: 22.4% (13.4–31.3%)
  • Diabetes: 20.5%
  • Obesity: 44.3%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.4%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (4.2–20.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Camden city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 516 residents.

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