Promised Land Baptist Church
Promised Land Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newark, NJ 07108. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 26 Baptist congregations in the city.
Promised Land Baptist Church is a Bible-believing, Independent Baptist Church that believes in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
Services in Spanish
Newark, NJ, 07108Service times
- Sunday 10am · SchoolEvery morning
Phone: (704) 868-2364 · Website: http://promisedlandbaptistchurch.com/
Promised Land 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 Promised Land 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 half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 55.5%
- Poverty Rate: 48.5% (34.1–62.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 33.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 29.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.6%
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (2.0–17.3%)
- Child Poverty: 22.5% (6.2–38.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
Churches near Promised Land Baptist Church
- Calvary Touch of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- Divine Touch Bible Church New Jersey — 0.1 mi away
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Pentecost USA — 0.2 mi away
- Gospel Mission Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Presbyterian — 0.2 mi away
- Gravel Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Paul's Tabernacle Church — 0.3 mi away
- Abundant Grace Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- Bethesda — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Dawn Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away