First Baptist Chruch

First Baptist Chruch is a Baptist church at 225 North 8th Street in Kenilworth, NJ 07033. It is one of 7 churches in Kenilworth, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.

225 North 8th Street, Kenilworth, NJ, 07033

Website: https://www.firstbaptistofkenilworth.com

First Baptist Chruch is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 706 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 71,417 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 Chruch

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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: 32.3%
  • Unemployment: 7.4% (2.7–12.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Kenilworth borough is served by 3 churches — about one congregation for every 2,781 residents.

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