New Saint John Baptist Church
New Saint John Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 659 East 188th Street in New York, NY 10458. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 194 Baptist congregations in the city.
659 East 188th Street, New York, NY, 10458Website: sjbg.weebly.com
Shares a ministry location with Christian Assembly The Bronx.
New Saint John Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,495 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 71,872 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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The community around New Saint John Baptist 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 6,700 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: 43.1%
- Food Insecurity: 42.6%
- Poverty Rate: 35.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.8%
- Child Poverty: 39.5% (25.2–53.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 10.2% (5.1–15.2%)
- Diabetes: 13.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (7.9–18.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
Churches near New Saint John Baptist Church
- Christian Assembly The Bronx — 0 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Italian Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- United Church Of God — 0.3 mi away
- Community Church of Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Blessed Hope Assembly of God — 0.3 mi away in Bronx, NY
- Saint Martin of Tours Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Our Saviour — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church Bronx — 0.5 mi away
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