First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Elizabeth, NJ 07208. It is one of 135 churches in Elizabeth, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
Elizabeth, NJ, 07208Shares a ministry location with First Baptist Church of Cranford-Elizabethtown and New Jersey Tamil Church.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 728 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 71,872 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 First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,600 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 34.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.8% (18.1–35.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (3.2–17.0%)
- Obesity: 36.9%
- Child Poverty: 23.6% (7.0–40.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.4% (10.5–26.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Elizabeth city is served by 60 churches — about one congregation for every 2,261 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- New Jersey Tamil Church — 0 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Cranford-Elizabethtown — 0 mi away
- Life Transformation Church — 0 mi away
- Cea Church Of God — 0 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Church — 0.1 mi away
- Igreja Universal — 0.1 mi away
- St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Ciudad de Dios — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Movimiento Misionero Mundial Elizabeth NJ — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Haitian Bethany Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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