New Bethel Baptist Church
New Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 856 E. Jersey St. in Elizabeth, NJ 07201. It is one of 135 churches in Elizabeth, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.
To meet the needs of the New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, under the spiritual guidance of its Pastor and the Deacons by promoting the spiritual growth in the church.
New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church’s Music Ministry is strategically designed to set the tone for the worship experience.
856 E. Jersey St., Elizabeth, NJ, 07201Phone: (515) 739-1030 · Website: https://newbethelmbc856.org/Home
New Bethel 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 — 71,418 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.
Ministries at New Bethel Baptist Church
- Deacon’s Ministry
- Deaconess' Ministry
- Music Ministry
- Praise Dance Ministry
- Ushers' Ministry
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The community around New Bethel 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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,400 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: 35.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.8% (17.6–30.0%)
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Unemployment: 9.1% (4.6–13.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.0% (11.0–29.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Elizabeth city is served by 60 churches — about one congregation for every 2,261 residents.
Churches near New Bethel Baptist Church
- Saint Michael's Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Hispano Americana — 0.1 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Santa Isabel Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Memorial Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Today's Church NJ — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Temple Church of God and Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Moravian Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Memorial Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista David Livingstone — 0.4 mi away
- The Hope Community Church — 0.5 mi away
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