Bethsaida Baptist Church
Bethsaida Baptist Church is a church in Newark, NJ 07104. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
Newark, NJ, 07104Bethsaida Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 728 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 71,872 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 Bethsaida Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,400 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.
- Food Insecurity: 34.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.7%
- Child Poverty: 39.9% (28.3–51.5%)
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
- Poverty Rate: 22.3% (8.5–36.1%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.7% (7.4–23.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (1.6–16.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
- Diabetes: 13.0%
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 Bethsaida Baptist Church
- Emmanuel Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Etrnl God United Brothers — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Hermanos Unidos En Cristo Newark 1 — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zon Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Newark Spanish Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St/ michael's Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fountain of Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart — 0.3 mi away
- Clinton Memorial AME Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Zon Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist — 0.8 mi away