Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church
Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1196 Penn Street in Camden, NJ 08102. It is one of 172 churches in Camden, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to Magnify Jesus with all of our heart and Make Disciples with the love of Jesus Christ.
Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church has had the pleasure of being a part of our community since 1913.
1196 Penn Street, Camden, NJ, 08102Phone: (856) 966-9400 · Website: https://www.mcmbc.net/
Mt. Calvary Missionary 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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Latest from Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church Camden, NJ's YouTube channel: September 13, 2026 Church Anniversary/ Bishop Clifton E. Freeman- Mt Calvary MCMBC (all videos).
The community around Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 48.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.8%
- Poverty Rate: 34.7% (22.4–47.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.9%
- Diabetes: 19.8%
- Unemployment: 16.6% (8.6–24.5%)
- Obesity: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
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.
Churches near Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church
- Iglesia Pentecostal Alpha & Amega — 0 mi away
- Life Assembly Ministries for Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal MI Arca de Salvacion — 0.4 mi away
- Newton Friends Meetinghouse — 0.4 mi away
- Douglas — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Calvary Church of God In Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Camden Bible Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception — 0.5 mi away
- Camden Priest — 0.5 mi away
- Diocese of Camden — 0.5 mi away
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