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 17 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.
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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