Bisrate Gebriel Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Bisrate Gebriel Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is a church at 1046 South Orange Ave in Newark, NJ 07106. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
1046 South Orange Ave, Newark, NJ, 07106Phone: +18009192736 · Website: https://www.gebriel.org/
Shares a ministry location with Sacred Heart Church.
Bisrate Gebriel Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is part of the Oriental Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 26 congregations of the Oriental Orthodox family gather across New Jersey — 351 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian, and Syriac churches have held the faith under pressure longer than almost anyone — Ethiopia has worshiped Christ continuously since the fourth century, and the Armenian church has buried martyrs in nearly every generation since. Their endurance is a gift to a church that has grown used to comfort.
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The community around Bisrate Gebriel Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than 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: 40.3%
- Food Insecurity: 36.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Poverty Rate: 23.7% (10.7–36.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (3.4–18.6%)
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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- Word Of God Ministers — 0.2 mi away
- Newark Gospel Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
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