Holy Comforter Episcopal Church
Holy Comforter Episcopal Church is a church in Rahway, NJ 07065. It is one of 33 churches in Rahway.
Rahway, NJ, 07065Shares a ministry location with Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal.
Holy Comforter Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 221 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across New Jersey — 6,341 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 Comforter Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,400 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: 34.1%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (2.6–17.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Food Insecurity: 17.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Rahway city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 2,118 residents.
Churches near Holy Comforter Episcopal Church
- Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal — 0 mi away
- St. Thomas The Apostle Byzantine Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Family Center — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Greek Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Oasis Christian Centre — 0.5 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia la luz del Mundo — 0.5 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 1.7 mi away in Linden, NJ
- Saint Luke's Episcopal Church — 3.2 mi away in Roselle, NJ
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 3.6 mi away in Woodbridge, NJ
- Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church — 4.1 mi away in Carteret, NJ