Saint John's Baptist Church
Saint John's Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Scotch Plains, NJ 07076. It is one of 17 churches in Scotch Plains, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
The mission of Saint John’s Baptist Church is to reach people for Jesus Christ and help them to become more like Him. To become a church where everybody is somebody and every member is a minister.
Our church, a Christian church, according to the point of view traditionally held by Baptists, is a company of regenerated persons baptized in profession of faith in Christ Jesus, united in covenant for the propagation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for worship, instruction, the observance of Christian ordinances, and for such service as the gospel of Christ requires.
Scotch Plains, NJ, 07076Saint John's 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 — 71,418 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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Latest from St. John's Baptist Church's YouTube channel: SJBC Bible Study | September 16, 2026 | Make Your Life Count! (all videos).
The community around Saint John's Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 10 the people here were born in another country, and about 1 in 15 travel more than an hour to work. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 28.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint John's Baptist Church
- Mt Sinai Pastor Dale — 0.1 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church Scotch Plains — 0.2 mi away
- Woodside Chapel — 0.5 mi away in Fanwood, NJ
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away in Westfield, NJ
- Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1 mi away in Westfield, NJ
- Saint Bartholomew's Roman Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- Emanuel Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Warren Temple Church of the Living God — 1.1 mi away
- Fanwood Presbyterian Church — 1.1 mi away in Fanwood, NJ
- First United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away in Westfield, NJ
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Westfield — 1.2 mi away in Westfield, NJ
- American Baptist Churches of New Jersey — 1.2 mi away in Westfield, NJ
- Bethel Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Westfield, NJ
- Scotch Plains Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Terrill Road Baptist Church — 2 mi away
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