First Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church
First Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church is a church at 15 Leslie St in Newark, NJ 07108-1009. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
15 Leslie St, Newark, NJ, 07108-1009Phone: +19733720880 · Website: http://wgma.us
Shares a ministry location with Saint Mathews Church.
First Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Zion Hill Missionary 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. 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 2,400 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.
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Food Insecurity: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.4%
- Unemployment: 14.7% (6.3–23.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.6%
- Obesity: 38.8%
- Poverty Rate: 20.0% (10.5–29.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (5.6–20.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church
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- Bible Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- LFAS Church — 0.1 mi away
- Newark Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away