Sardis Temple Baptist Church
Sardis Temple Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 508 18th Avenue in Newark, NJ 07103. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 42 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sardis Temple Baptist Church desires to win souls for Christ, while restoring families, and serving the community, through evangelism, Christian education, pastoral care, and community development.
Wheelchair accessible
508 18th Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07103Phone: (973) 642-3565 · Website: https://sardistemplebc.org
Sardis Temple Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 706 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 71,420 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 Sardis Temple 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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,400 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: 66.3% (48.1–84.5%)
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Food Insecurity: 39.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Poverty Rate: 28.0% (15.1–40.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.2%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (3.1–16.6%)
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (8.0–20.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Newark city is served by 139 churches — about one congregation for every 2,211 residents.
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