Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 198 Chadwick Avenue in Newark, NJ 07108. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 26 Baptist congregations in the city.
198 Chadwick Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07108Service times
- Sunday 10am · morning worship
Phone: (862) 231-2306 · Website: http://pgbcnewark.org/
Pleasant Grove 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 Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
- Christian Education
- Deacon Ministry
- Deaconess Ministry
- Executive Board
- Food and Clothing Outreach
- Golden Age Ministry
- Hospitality Ministry
- Missionary Ministry
- Men’s Ministry
- Pastor's Aide
- Praise and Worship
- Trustee Board/Ministry
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The community around Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 57.2%
- Poverty Rate: 52.4% (35.9–68.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 45.0%
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 35.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 31.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.0%
- Diabetes: 19.2%
- Obesity: 44.6%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (1.2–17.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
- Abundant Grace Christian Center — 0.1 mi away
- Bread of Life — 0.1 mi away
- Paradise Of Heaven — 0.2 mi away
- New Dawn Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Paul's Tabernacle Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gravel Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethesda — 0.2 mi away
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Divine Touch Bible Church New Jersey — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Dawn Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Promised Land Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away