Salvation Army

Salvation Army is a church at 699 Springfield Ave in Newark, NJ 07103-5027. It is one of 434 churches in Newark.

Serving since 1865 · Services in Chinese

699 Springfield Ave, Newark, NJ, 07103-5027

Service times

  • Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10am

Phone: (800) 725-2769 · Website: https://easternusa.salvationarmy.org/new-jersey/newark/newark-westside/

Salvation Army is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 33 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across New Jersey — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.

The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.

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The community around Salvation Army

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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

  • Child Poverty: 50.2% (34.5–67.5%)
  • Food Insecurity: 43.4%
  • Social Isolation: 40.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 39.5% (25.4–53.6%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 35.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.1%
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.5%
  • Unemployment: 15.7% (6.0–25.4%)
  • Obesity: 40.7%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
  • Diabetes: 15.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (4.5–18.4%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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