Saint John Baptist Church
Saint John Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Jersey City, NJ 07304. It is one of 204 churches in Jersey City, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
Jersey City, NJ, 07304Shares a ministry location with Bethesda Baptist Church and Zion Baptist Church.
Saint John 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 — 71,420 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 Saint John Baptist 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 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 3,000 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: 31.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
- Poverty Rate: 23.8% (11.6–36.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 11.3% (4.3–18.2%)
- Obesity: 37.2%
- Child Poverty: 24.1% (6.3–41.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Jersey City city is served by 102 churches — about one congregation for every 2,822 residents.
Churches near Saint John Baptist Church
- Zion Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Bethesda Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Patrick's Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Jersey City Deliverance Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- Salem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary CME — 0.2 mi away
- Christ the King Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Salem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ocean Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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