New Gethsemane Baptist Church
New Gethsemane Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 917 E Chelten Ave in Philadelphia, PA 19138-1713. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 298 Baptist congregations in the city.
New Gethsemane Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a family church dedicated to advancing the community through Evangelism.
Serving since 1926
917 E Chelten Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19138-1713Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10am
Phone: (215) 848-0292 · Website: https://www.newgethsemanebaptist.com/
New Gethsemane Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,478 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 71,420 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 New Gethsemane Baptist Church
- Bible Study
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The community around New Gethsemane 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. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 35.5% (22.9–48.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Unemployment: 13.8% (5.3–22.3%)
- Obesity: 43.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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