Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 79 Market Street, Perth Amboy, NJ, 08861.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 11am (School for all ages Morning & Evening Services). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Perth Amboy, NJ is a Baptist church. It is one of 4 Baptist congregations in Perth Amboy.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 79 Market Street in Perth Amboy, NJ 08861. It is one of 77 churches in Perth Amboy, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.

First Baptist Church of Perth Amboy, New Jersey is an Independent Baptist church that has served the community for over 200 years.

Serving since 1852 · Part of American Baptist Convention

79 Market Street, Perth Amboy, NJ, 08861

Service times

Sunday 11am · School for all ages Morning & Evening Services

Phone: (732) 826-5475 · Website: https://www.firstbaptistnj.org/

First 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.

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The community around First Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.

Food Insecurity: 32.4%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 31.6%
Housing Insecurity: 26.1%
Obesity: 40.4%
Social Isolation: 37.4%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.4% (12.1–24.6%)
Diabetes: 16.4%
Unemployment: 11.7% (6.3–17.1%)
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
Poverty Rate: 17.2% (11.9–22.5%)
Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Perth Amboy city is served by 36 churches — about one congregation for every 1,534 residents.

Churches near First Baptist Church

Perth Amboy Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
First Swedish Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
Calvary Chapel Perth Amboy — 0.1 mi away
Saint Peters Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
Manatial De Vida — 0.2 mi away
Iglesia Universal — 0.2 mi away
Simpson United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
Extendiendo Las Manos — 0.2 mi away
Manantial de Vida — 0.3 mi away
Casa de Oración Maranatha — 0.3 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

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Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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Temple Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
Grace Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Fords, NJ

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