New Hope Baptist Church
New Hope Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newark, NJ 07103. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 42 Baptist congregations in the city.
New Hope began its services as a “mission” in the home of Addie and Maggie Vine on Drift Street in Newark. Its first pastor elected was Rev. Jesse Williams from North Carolina and the church organized on June 2, 1903 and incorporated on May 1, 1918.
Serving since 1903
Newark, NJ, 07103Service times
- Wednesday 12pm
- Sunday 7:45am · April 15th
New Hope 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 — 71,418 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 New Hope Baptist Church
- Feeding Program
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The community around New Hope 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 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: 40.6%
- Food Insecurity: 37.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Poverty Rate: 29.8% (15.1–44.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (7.1–21.7%)
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.7–12.3%)
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 New Hope Baptist Church
- Harvest Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- VIictory — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Augustine Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Purpose Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Resurrection Outreach Ministries, Inc — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Del Dios Fiel Y Verdadero — 0.3 mi away
- The Sanctuary USA — 0.3 mi away
- Community Transformation Church — 0.3 mi away
- Living Free Ministries — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pilgrim Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away