St John Baptist of Pennsauken

St John Baptist of Pennsauken is a church at 2323 Merchantville Ave in Pennsauken, NJ 08110-1814. It is one of 24 churches in Pennsauken.

2323 Merchantville Ave, Pennsauken, NJ, 08110-1814

Phone: +18569109070 · Website: http://www.sjbcpennsauken.org/

St John Baptist of Pennsauken 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 St John Baptist of Pennsauken

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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.

  • Social Isolation: 36.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.0%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.1%
  • Unemployment: 10.0% (4.4–15.6%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
  • Child Poverty: 24.9% (9.2–40.7%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 19.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.1% (9.0–25.1%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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