Holy Cross Episcopal Church
Holy Cross Episcopal Church is a church in Perth Amboy, NJ 08861. It is one of 77 churches in Perth Amboy.
Perth Amboy, NJ, 08861Holy Cross Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 196 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across New Jersey — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Holy Cross Episcopal Church
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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 31.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.2%
- Obesity: 40.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.0% (9.8–22.2%)
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (4.6–15.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Child Poverty: 26.0% (11.2–40.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.3% (11.5–31.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Perth Amboy city is served by 36 churches — about one congregation for every 1,534 residents.
Churches near Holy Cross Episcopal Church
- Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- John Calvin Magyar Reformed Church — 0.1 mi away
- RCCG SOP - Sanctuary of Praise — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Czechoslovak Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Ebenzer — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sts. Cyril and Methodius Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Convent — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Saint Peters Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- St. Stephen's Episcopal Church — 1.6 mi away in Staten Island, NY
- Christ Church — 2.2 mi away in South Amboy, NJ
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 2.6 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 3.2 mi away in Woodbridge, NJ
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