Philemon Baptist Church
Philemon Baptist Church is a church in Newark, NJ 07112. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.
Newark, NJ, 07112Philemon 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 Philemon 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 42.2%
- Child Poverty: 42.1% (25.1–59.2%)
- Social Isolation: 40.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.5%
- Unemployment: 14.7% (5.5–23.9%)
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.8%
- Poverty Rate: 27.8% (13.9–41.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.3%
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.9% (5.1–24.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near Philemon Baptist Church
- Newark Church of God By Faith — 0.1 mi away
- Newark Way of the Cross — 0.1 mi away
- New Saint James Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ark City Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethesda Garden Temple Church, Inc — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victory At Sunrise Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Life-Giving Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- New Psalmist Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Saint James Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. John's Community Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away