First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church

First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church is a Baptist church at 572 Broad Street in Newark, NJ 07102. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 42 Baptist congregations in the city.

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572 Broad Street, Newark, NJ, 07102

Service times

  • Sunday 10:30am · Service

Phone: (973) 642-2552 · Website: https://www.peddiechurch.org/

First Baptist Peddie Memorial 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.

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The community around First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 38.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.0% (17.7–34.2%)
  • Food Insecurity: 24.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
  • Unemployment: 8.4% (2.0–14.8%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%

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.

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