St. John's Community Baptist Church
St. John's Community Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1066 Bergen St in Newark, NJ 07112-2040. It is one of 434 churches in Newark, and one of 42 Baptist congregations in the city.
We are home to loving families who seek to love God, love people, and lovingly serve the church and the world while teaching others to do the same.
We are a Christian Community Church affiliated with the Christian & Missionary Alliance denomination. We are home to loving families who seek to love God, love people, and lovingly serve the church and the world while teaching others to do the same.
Serving since 1969 · Accessible parking
1066 Bergen St, Newark, NJ, 07112-2040Service times
- Wednesday 7pm · Power Hour of Prayer
Phone: (973) 923-7658 · Website: https://www.stjohnscbc.org/
St. John's Community 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 — 71,417 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.
Find St. John's Community Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
Upcoming events at St. John's Community Baptist Church
- Mon, Sep 21 · 7 PM: Mass Choir Rehearsals
- Tue, Sep 22 · 6 AM: Early Morning Prayer Service - Tuesdays
- Wed, Sep 23 · 7 PM: Zoom Power Hour of Prayer
- Sun, Sep 27 · 9 AM: Adult Sunday School — Mother Flossie Brown Fellowship Hall at the church
- Sun, Sep 27 · 10 AM: Sunday Worship
From St. John's Community Baptist Church's public calendar (https://www.stjohnscbc.org/). Times are the church's local time.
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The community around St. John's Community Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 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 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.
- Child Poverty: 57.7% (43.9–72.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 40.8%
- Poverty Rate: 33.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.3%
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Obesity: 40.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.4% (5.2–29.6%)
- Unemployment: 10.5% (3.5–17.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. John's Community Baptist Church
- Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Triumph Church of the New Age — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Palm Garden Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gethsemane Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Elizabeth Avenue Weequahic United Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God & Saints of Christ — 0.4 mi away
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- Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Good Neighbor Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Philemon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Saint James Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away