Lydia Baptist Church
Lydia Baptist Church is a church in Newark, NJ 07112. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
Newark, NJ, 07112Lydia 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 — 71,420 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 Lydia Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is two thousand 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: 41.7%
- Food Insecurity: 37.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.7%
- Unemployment: 16.7% (7.9–25.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Obesity: 37.5%
- Poverty Rate: 19.8% (10.0–29.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (5.7–17.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near Lydia Baptist Church
- Union Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- The Divine Healer's Church — 0.2 mi away
- Celestial Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Assembly of God — 0.3 mi away
- New Psalmist Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Clear View Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Life-Giving Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Ark City Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Newark Way of the Cross — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Clear View Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Philemon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Timothy Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away