Shalom Baptist Church
Shalom Baptist Church is a church at 435 Chambers Avenue in Camden, NJ 08103. It is one of 172 churches in Camden.
435 Chambers Avenue, Camden, NJ, 08103Shalom 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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The community around Shalom 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. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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: 41.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
- Poverty Rate: 23.6% (13.0–34.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (3.0–14.6%)
- Obesity: 39.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (0.4–22.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Camden city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 516 residents.
Churches near Shalom Baptist Church
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Douglas — 0.1 mi away
- St. Augustine's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Wesley AME Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bright Memorial Disciples of Christ Holy Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel United Pentecostal — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Puerta de Salvacion — 0.3 mi away
- Genesis New Beginning In Christ COGIC — 0.3 mi away
- St. Luke U.A.M.E. Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Church of the Living God — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Mickle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Beginnings Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Pilgram Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away