New Ephesus Baptist Church
New Ephesus Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 175 Brookwood Street in East Orange, NJ 07018-2373. It is one of 60 churches in East Orange, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
175 Brookwood Street, East Orange, NJ, 07018-2373New Ephesus Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 703 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 71,352 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 New Ephesus Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 2,500 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: 31.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.3%
- Unemployment: 14.4% (6.7–22.2%)
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.8%
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Poverty Rate: 17.2% (8.1–26.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
East Orange city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 2,025 residents.
Churches near New Ephesus Baptist Church
- Vailsburg Assembly of God — 0.1 mi away in Newark, NJ
- New Bethany Haitian Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Newark Gospel Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away in Newark, NJ
- Shekinah Glory Christian Church — 0.2 mi away in Newark, NJ
- Love of Jesus Family Church — 0.3 mi away in Newark, NJ
- Praise Temple Church of God — 0.3 mi away in Newark, NJ
- Bisrate Gebriel Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church — 0.3 mi away in Newark, NJ
- Divinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Josephs Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Bethany Haitian Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Divinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Peaceful Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Imani Baptist Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Reformed Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Newark, NJ
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