Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newark, NJ 07112. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 42 Baptist congregations in the city.
Newark, NJ, 07112Service times
- Sunday 8:30am · School
- Sunday 10am · as we gather to worship together
Shares a ministry location with Bethesda Garden Temple Church, Inc.
Morning Star 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 Morning Star 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 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Food Insecurity: 39.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.6%
- Unemployment: 12.4% (4.1–21.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
- Poverty Rate: 24.6% (13.2–35.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.0%
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Obesity: 39.1%
- Child Poverty: 29.0% (12.1–45.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (4.5–22.0%)
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 Morning Star Baptist Church
- Bethesda Garden Temple Church, Inc — 0 mi away
- Newark Church of God By Faith — 0.1 mi away
- Newark Way of the Cross — 0.2 mi away
- Philemon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Restored Holiness Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Community Chapel of Christ Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- New Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ark City Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Psalmist Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Life-Giving Church of God — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Philemon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Saint James Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Lydia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away