Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 27 Lincoln Avenue in Newark, NJ 07104. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Nuestro objetivo es fomentar el desarrollo espiritual y conexiones significativas, capacitando a las personas para prosperar en su fe.
Services in Spanish
27 Lincoln Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07104Phone: +1 973-483-7025 · Website: https://www.mpbcnewark.com/
Mount Pleasant 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.
Ministries at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- Bible Study for Adults
- Bible Study for Youth
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The community around Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 working-age adults live without health insurance. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 39.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
- Poverty Rate: 29.7% (20.4–38.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.2% (10.8–25.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.8%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (2.9–16.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 Pleasant Baptist Church
- Eternal Sacred Order-Cherubim — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Puertas de Bendiciones — 0.2 mi away
- Templo El Candelero — 0.3 mi away
- Macedonia Church of Christ of the Apostolic Faith — 0.3 mi away
- Third Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Church Of God — 0.4 mi away
- Celebration Church NJ — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Nuevo Nacimiento — 0.4 mi away
- Newark Spanish Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Christian Academy — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Zon Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethsaida Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Gospel Light Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Kearny, NJ