Hopewell Baptist Church
Hopewell Baptist Church is a church in Newark, NJ 07107. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
The mission of the Hopewell Museum is to preserve and display the artifacts that serve as an expression of village life in New Jersey and tell the story of Hopewell-area history from its pre-colonial beginnings to the present.
Serving since 1825
Newark, NJ, 07107Hopewell 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 — 71,417 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 Hopewell Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is two thousand 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.
- Food Insecurity: 38.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Unemployment: 14.2% (6.4–22.0%)
- Social Isolation: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Poverty Rate: 19.9% (10.6–29.2%)
- Diabetes: 13.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (6.9–17.5%)
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.
Churches near Hopewell Baptist Church
- St, Rose of Lima — 0.1 mi away
- Foundation Church of God In Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Liberty Temple Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Emanuel — 0.1 mi away
- Roseville Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Barnabas Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lighthouse Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethlehem Community Church — 0.3 mi away in East Orange, NJ
- Temple of Salvation and Deliverance — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in East Orange, NJ
- Pilgrim Baptist — 0.7 mi away
- Welcome Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away