New Horizon Baptist Church

New Horizon Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5532 Rising Sun Avenue in Philadelphia, PA 19120. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 239 Baptist congregations in the city.

The mission of our church is to follow the command of Jesus and make disciples of believers in Christ through teaching and training and then to reach out to others to present Christ to the world.

New Horizon Baptist Church is a Ministry Center dedicated to meeting the spiritual needs of the community and the world through practical Christian teaching and Outreach.

5532 Rising Sun Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19120

Service times

  • Sunday 9:30am

Phone: (215) 324-9055 · Website: https://newhorizonpa.org/

New Horizon Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,509 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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.

Ministries at New Horizon Baptist Church

  • Culinary
  • Family Outreach
  • Hospitality
  • Inspirational Covenant
  • Pastor’s Aid
  • Willing Workers

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The community around New Horizon Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.

  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
  • Diabetes: 20.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.0% (10.0–34.1%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.8%
  • Unemployment: 8.5% (3.4–13.5%)
  • Obesity: 37.6%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (7.3–20.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.

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