Guiding Star United Holy Church
Guiding Star United Holy Church is a church at 400 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd in East Orange, NJ 07018-3210. It is one of 78 churches in East Orange.
Our church exists to lead people to Christ by creating a culture of love, friendliness, and discipleship so they in turn can win and disciple others with the same experience.
Guiding Star has been commissioned in this crucial season to spread the uncompromising Word of God.
400 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, East Orange, NJ, 07018-3210Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · Worship
Phone: (908) 245-9794 · Website: https://www.guidingstarchurch.org/about-us/
Shares a ministry location with R.I.S.E Church.
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The community around Guiding Star United Holy 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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.
- Child Poverty: 43.4% (26.8–60.1%)
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Food Insecurity: 34.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (15.0–35.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.4%
- Unemployment: 10.2% (5.1–15.2%)
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Diabetes: 13.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (7.2–19.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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