New Saint James Baptist Church
New Saint James Baptist Church is a church in Newark, NJ 07112. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
Newark, NJ, 07112Shares a ministry location with Ark City Church.
New Saint James 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.
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The community around New Saint James 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 41.9%
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.2%
- Unemployment: 18.0% (7.8–28.3%)
- Obesity: 40.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
- Poverty Rate: 26.8% (12.4–41.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.6% (5.4–23.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near New Saint James Baptist Church
- Ark City Church — 0 mi away
- Life-Giving Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Victory At Sunrise Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Psalmist Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- Newark Way of the Cross — 0.1 mi away
- Newark Church of God By Faith — 0.1 mi away
- Philemon Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethesda Garden Temple Church, Inc — 0.3 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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