First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 384 Elm Street in Kearny, NJ 07032. It is one of 31 churches in Kearny, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
384 Elm Street, Kearny, NJ, 07032Phone: (201) 991-2470 · Website: http://kbaptistchurch.org/
Shares a ministry location with St. Stephen's Roman Catholic 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 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 7 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.1%
- Food Insecurity: 15.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (6.3–17.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Kearny town is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 2,572 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church — 0 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Home International Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Canaan United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ministerio Internacional Sion — 0.3 mi away
- Ceva - Home International Church — 0.3 mi away
- Geracao Eleita — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Kearny Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Chapel of Kearny — 0.5 mi away
- Berea Baptist Church of Kearny — 0.6 mi away
- Gospel Light Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Newark, NJ