Mount Olivet Baptist Church
Mount Olivet Baptist Church is a church in Newark, NJ 07108. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
Newark, NJ, 07108Shares a ministry location with New Psalmist Worship Center.
Mount Olivet Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Mount Olivet 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. Nearly half 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 2,500 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: 48.9% (33.0–66.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Poverty Rate: 36.3% (22.2–50.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 35.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.4%
- Obesity: 40.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (3.2–16.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near Mount Olivet Baptist Church
- New Psalmist Worship Center — 0 mi away
- New Born Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Clear-Way Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Agape Christian Center Of NJ USA — 0.1 mi away in Princeton, NJ
- Refuge Apostolic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Newborn Tabernacle Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- RCCG Dominion Hope of Glory — 0.2 mi away
- Redemption Church Of God — 0.2 mi away