Bethany Baptist Church
Bethany Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newark, NJ 07103. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 42 Baptist congregations in the city.
Newark, NJ, 07103Website: http://www.bethany-newark.org/
Bethany 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 — 71,417 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 Bethany Baptist Church
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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,500 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: 42.5%
- Food Insecurity: 31.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Poverty Rate: 26.1% (11.0–41.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Unemployment: 10.9% (3.2–18.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near Bethany Baptist Church
- Chosen Generation Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Del Dios Fiel Y Verdadero — 0.1 mi away
- Resurrection Outreach Ministries, Inc — 0.2 mi away
- Rivers of Living Water UCC NJ — 0.2 mi away
- Phillips Metropolitain CME — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Union African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Haitian Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- The Sanctuary USA — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Augustine Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Holy Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist — 0.4 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away