St. Lawrence
St. Lawrence is a Catholic church in Chester, NJ 07930. It is one of 8 churches in Chester, and one of 2 Catholic congregations in the city.
Chester, NJ, 07930Website: http://www.stlchester.org/
St. Lawrence is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 606 congregations of the Catholic family gather across New Jersey — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around St. Lawrence
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Social Isolation: 29.7%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.3–11.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chester borough is served by 3 churches — about one congregation for every 493 residents.
Churches near St. Lawrence
- Community Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Bible Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethlehem Hermitage — 1 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Church — 1.6 mi away
- Church of the Messiah — 2.1 mi away
- Mendham Hills Community Church — 2.4 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 3 mi away in Long Valley, NJ
- Church of the Mystic Gray — 3.1 mi away in Flanders, NJ
- St. Thomas Orthodox Church — 3.3 mi away in Flanders, NJ
More Catholic churches nearby
- Church of the Messiah — 2.1 mi away
- St. Brigid Roman Catholic Church — 5.4 mi away in Peapack and Gladstone, NJ
- Our Lady of the Mountain Roman Catholic Church — 5.9 mi away in Washington Twp, NJ
- St. Jude Parish — 6.1 mi away in Budd Lake, NJ
- St. Therese Roman Catholic Church — 6.3 mi away in Succasunna, NJ
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