Van Riper Elis Church
Van Riper Elis Church is a Baptist church at 7-01 River Road in Fair Lawn, NJ 07410. It is one of 16 churches in Fair Lawn.
We practice the way of Jesus by worshipping the Lord, learning the Word of God, feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, and offering hope and compassion to all.
To be a local church that brings faith, hope, and love to the world that God so loved.
7-01 River Road, Fair Lawn, NJ, 07410Phone: (201) 791-8844 · Website: https://www.vrebbc.org/
Van Riper Elis 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 Van Riper Elis Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,200 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: 32.4%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.1–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Fair Lawn borough is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 3,494 residents.
Churches near Van Riper Elis Church
- Fair Lawn Bible Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.5 mi away in Paterson, NJ
- Barrio SUD de East Side Park, NJ — 0.5 mi away in Paterson, NJ
- Saint Anne's Church — 0.6 mi away
- Warren Point Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Van Riper Ellis Broadway Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Our Savior Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Testament Assembly — 0.9 mi away in Paterson, NJ
- Saint Teresa Roman Catholic Church — 1 mi away in Paterson, NJ
More Baptist churches nearby
- Van Riper Ellis Broadway Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Canann Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Paterson, NJ
- Friendship Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Paterson, NJ
- Broadway Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Paterson, NJ
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Paterson, NJ
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