First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at North Centre Street in Merchantville, NJ 08109. It is one of 10 churches in Merchantville.

North Centre Street, Merchantville, NJ, 08109

Shares a ministry location with Freedom Church and High Place Church.

First 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.

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The community around First Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 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 10 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: 34.0%
  • Unemployment: 9.1% (4.0–14.3%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.9% (6.1–33.8%)
  • Food Insecurity: 19.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Merchantville borough is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 760 residents.

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