River of Life Presbyterian Church
River of Life Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church at 445 South Main Street in Phillipsburg, NJ 08865. It is one of 31 churches in Phillipsburg, and one of 4 Presbyterian congregations in the city.
445 South Main Street, Phillipsburg, NJ, 08865River of Life Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 387 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across New Jersey — 11,638 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around River of Life Presbyterian 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 36.2%
- Child Poverty: 35.0% (19.7–50.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.2%
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 21.1% (13.6–28.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (3.0–12.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Phillipsburg town is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 950 residents.
Churches near River of Life Presbyterian Church
- Saint Philips & Saint James Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Alfa Y Omega — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Blessed Hope — 0.4 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- S.S. Peter & Paul Byzantine Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Phillipsburg Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Victory and Freedom — 0.6 mi away
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1.2 mi away in Easton, PA
- Pilgrim Presbyterian Church — 1.2 mi away
- College Hill Presbyterian Church — 1.4 mi away in Easton, PA
- United Presbyterian Church — 1.8 mi away
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