Bethlehem Baptist Church
Bethlehem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 4th Street, NJ, 07107 in Newark, NJ 07107. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 42 Baptist congregations in the city.
We are devoting ourselves to the teaching of the spiritual leaders and seeking to disciple others in the way of Jesus' commission.
4th Street, NJ, 07107, Newark, NJ, 07107Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (973) 482-3692 · Website: https://www.bethlehemnewark.org/
Bethlehem 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.
Find Bethlehem Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethlehem Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 37.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.3% (13.1–27.5%)
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.7%
- Poverty Rate: 25.5% (11.5–39.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (1.3–16.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near Bethlehem Baptist Church
- The Pentecostals of Newark — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Our Saviour — 0.2 mi away
- Mars Hill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Francis Xavier Church — 0.3 mi away
- Royalhouse Chapel International - Covenant Center — 0.3 mi away
- Brick City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Centro Internacional Jesucristo es Rey — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Hermanos Unidos En Cristo Newark 1 — 0.4 mi away
- Fountain of Life Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the Etrnl God United Brothers — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethsaida Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Greater Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in East Orange, NJ
- Mount Zon Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away