Galilee Baptist Church
Galilee Baptist Church is a church at 24 Lyons Ave in Newark, NJ 07112. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
24 Lyons Ave, Newark, NJ, 07112Phone: +19739266110 · Website: http://www.theplaceofsurrender.org
Galilee 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 Galilee 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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.
- Child Poverty: 41.4% (30.8–54.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 37.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.1%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
- Poverty Rate: 28.1% (21.1–35.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.7% (5.8–27.6%)
- Unemployment: 11.6% (4.7–18.4%)
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Galilee Baptist Church
- Calvary Gospel Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Elizabeth Avenue Weequahic United Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Triumph Church of the New Age — 0.4 mi away
- Good Neighbor Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Palm Garden Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gethsemane Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St. John's Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Good Neighbor Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Philemon Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away