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: (973) 372-0880 · 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. 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 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.
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- A New Generation Of Promise — 0.1 mi away
- The Inspire Church — 0.1 mi away
- 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
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