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, 08109Shares 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.
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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.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- High Place Church — 0 mi away
- Freedom Church — 0 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Peter Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Temple Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church - Merchantville, NJ — 0.5 mi away
- Gates of Praise Church of God — 0.5 mi away in Pennsauken Twp, NJ