Mt Zion Baptist Church
Mt Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 437 Grieves Pkwy in Salem, NJ 08079-1808. It is one of 14 churches in Salem, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our Mission is to endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the Body of Christ, to evangelize our local community and abroad, and to educate the Body of Christ so that they are able to rightly divide the Word of Truth.
To obtain the dream of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church on 5 Union Street, Salem, N.J., much was sacrificed for this dream to become a reality.
437 Grieves Pkwy, Salem, NJ, 08079-1808Phone: (856) 935-4131 · Website: https://mtzionsalem.org/
Mt Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 703 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 71,352 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.
Ministries at Mt Zion Baptist Church
- Sunday School
- Christian Education Ministry
- Christian Women’s Fellowship Ministry
- Hospitality Ministry
- Kitchen Ministry
- Media Ministry
- Men’s Ministry – 4 Corners-HBO
- Mime Ministry
- Nurses’s Ministry
- Outreach Ministry
- Pastor’s Aid Ministry
- Pulpit Ministry
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The community around Mt Zion Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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.
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Food Insecurity: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.0%
- Poverty Rate: 31.8% (18.2–45.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Unemployment: 10.9% (1.8–20.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mt Zion Baptist Church
- Spirit Life Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Harvest-Time Worship Center — 0.9 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of Salem — 1 mi away
- Broadway United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- St John's Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Salem Seventh-day Adventist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Kingdom Living Ministries International — 1.9 mi away
- Quinton Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Quinton, NJ
- Salem First Assembly — 3 mi away
- Hancocks Bridge United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Quinton Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Quinton, NJ
- Canton Baptist Church — 6.1 mi away
- Park Bible Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away in Pennsville, NJ
- Marlboro Church — 8.7 mi away in Bridgeton, NJ
- First Baptist Church of Woodstown — 9.4 mi away in Woodstown, NJ