Our mission for New Mickle Baptist Church is instructed by Jesus Christ...

• To go make disciples of all nations (worldwide)
• To baptize all nations in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
• To teach all (everyone) that Jesus Christ has commanded
  (Matthew 28:19-20)
• To go into all the world, and preach (teaching, sharing) the gospel (His Word) to every creature. (Mark 16:15)
• To go into the streets and alleys of the city and bring in the poor, the unsaved, the crippled, the lost, the prideful, the bitter, the hurting, and the rejected. (Luke 14:21)
• To go into the highways (roads) to bring and welcome all people in just as they are that God’s house may be filled. (Luke 14:23)

The vision God has foreseen for the New Mickle Baptist Church is...

• To instruct and teach all of God’s people the sound doctrine, one message, the Word of God that saves, roots, and grounds people in the Lord.
• To draw all of God’s people together in the same place that we may receive the same call, be with the same mind, serve the same purpose and help one another in every way possible to work together under the command and authority of Jesus Christ.
• To become a people unified on one accord, worshipping and praising God, every day that we may gain favor with all people so to be saved as the Lord will add to His church day by day.
  (Acts 2:42-46)

New Mickle Baptist Church (NMBC) is a historic church and congregation in Camden, NJ. The Church was founded in Spring 1917. Our present building was built in 1868. In September 1919, the church was incorporated and continued to grow. The church was originally located on Mickle Street now known as Martin Luther King Blvd.

The church continued to grow and soon needed to expand. In 1951, the church purchased and moved to a larger location at 4th and Benson Streets. The name of the church was changed from Mickle Street Baptist Church to New Mickle Baptist Church.

Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation.

We are marching forward in time always remembering the match that was struck in 1917. We can envision “planning, praying, practicing the presence of God; training for the service through the reading and studying of the Word of God, equipped with the weapons of spiritual warfare to serve this present age with a vision for this millennium”.

We are thankful to our Father for the gift of history and we pledge to keep the Great Commission “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world.” Amen
Matthew 28:19, 20.

Joyce Coleman-Cowen