Episcopal Evangelism? "Isn't that an oxymoron? Isn't everybody already an Episcopalian who ought to be?" --A cartoon or our reality?

[See Episcopal EVangelism -- L.]

• New Jersey by Ethnicity.
• Diocese of Newark by Ethnicity.
• Parishes in Ethnic Neighborhoods.
• Clergy of Color.
• Price Tags of Color.
• Lily White Neighborhoods.
  • Is 'Lily White' a Racist Category?
• Hispanic Neighborhoods.

• Locating Census Information on Zip Codes.

New Jersey by Ethnicity

13.4% Black:

00.2% Native American

03.5% Asians

03.6% Other
20.7% People of Color
79.3% White

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Zip Codes of Congregations of the Diocese of Newark

18.2% Black

0.2% Native Americans

4.4% Asians

5.4% Other
28.2% People of Color
71.8% White

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Click here to see a list of parishes in each district.

People of color live in greatest abundance in the zip codes of the following congregations--each zip code with under the 71.8% average for whites in all zip codes in the diocese:

(in descending order from the zip code with the most people of color:
1. St. Andrew's Church, Newark. Percent black. 96%. Percent Native American: 0.22%. Percent Asian: 0.13%. Percent white: 1.3%. Percent other: 2.13%
2. Christ Church, East Orange. Percent black. 92%. Percent Native American: 0.18%. Percent Asian: 0.51%. Percent white: 5.9%. Percent other: 1.29%
3. The Church of the St. Agnes and St. Paul, East Orange. Percent black. 89%. Percent Native American: 0.32%. Percent Asian: 0.61%. Percent white: 8.5%. Percent other: 2.04%
4. Grace Church, Newark. Percent black. 66%. Percent Native American: 0.50%. Percent Asian: 3.74%. Percent white: 20.6%. Percent other: 9.21%
5. The Oasis, Newark. Percent black. 66%. Percent Native American: 0.50%. Percent Asian: 3.74%. Percent white: 20.6%. Percent other: 9.21%
6. Trinity & St. Philip's Cathedral, Newark. Percent black. 66%. Percent Native American: 0.50%. Percent Asian: 3.74%. Percent white: 20.6%. Percent other: 9.21%
7. Trinity Church, Irvington. Percent black. 70%. Percent Native American: 0.32%. Percent Asian: 2.35%. Percent white: 22.7%. Percent other: 4.77%
8. The Church of the Epiphany, Orange. Percent black. 70%. Percent Native American: 0.38%. Percent Asian: 1.15%. Percent white: 24.3%. Percent other: 4.50%
9. St. Matthew's Church, Jersey City. Percent black. 53%. Percent Native American: 0.13%. Percent Asian: 7.02%. Percent white: 32.8%. Percent other: 6.70%
10. Trinity Church, Paterson. Percent black. 49%. Percent Native American: 0.16%. Percent Asian: 2.39%. Percent white: 33.0%. Percent other: 15.87%
11. St. Paul's Church, Jersey City. Percent black. 48%. Percent Native American: 0.15%. Percent Asian: 9.08%. Percent white: 34.0%. Percent other: 9.06%
12. St. Stephen's Church, Jersey City. Percent black. 48%. Percent Native American: 0.15%. Percent Asian: 9.08%. Percent white: 34.0%. Percent other: 9.06%
13. St. Paul's Church, Paterson. Percent black. 37%. Percent Native American: 0.39%. Percent Asian: 1.12%. Percent white: 34.4%. Percent other: 27.13%
14. The Church of the Holy Communion, Paterson. Percent black. 37%. Percent Native American: 0.39%. Percent Asian: 1.12%. Percent white: 34.4%. Percent other: 27.13%
15. St. Barnabas' Church, Newark. Percent black. 46%. Percent Native American: 0.32%. Percent Asian: 1.07%. Percent white: 36.5%. Percent other: 16.58%
16. House of Prayer, Newark. Percent black. 21%. Percent Native American: 0.25%. Percent Asian: 1.61%. Percent white: 43.5%. Percent other: 33.17%
17. St. John's Church, Passaic. Percent black. 20%. Percent Native American: 0.17%. Percent Asian: 7.14%. Percent white: 46.0%. Percent other: 26.17%
18. St. Paul's Church, Englewood. Percent black. 40%. Percent Native American: 0.17%. Percent Asian: 4.67%. Percent white: 49.0%. Percent other: 6.25%
19. Grace Church Van Vorst, Jersey City. Percent black. 19%. Percent Native American: 0.27%. Percent Asian: 13.59%. Percent white: 52.2%. Percent other: 14.83%
20. St. Luke's Church, Montclair. Percent black. 43%. Percent Native American: 0.64%. Percent Asian: 1.53%. Percent white: 53.4%. Percent other: 1.08%
21. St. John's Church, Montclair. Percent black. 43%. Percent Native American: 0.64%. Percent Asian: 1.53%. Percent white: 53.4%. Percent other: 1.08%
22. Trinity Church, Montclair. Percent black. 43%. Percent Native American: 0.64%. Percent Asian: 1.53%. Percent white: 53.4%. Percent other: 1.08%
23. The Church of the Incarnation, Jersey City. Percent black. 15%. Percent Native American: 0.13%. Percent Asian: 17.86%. Percent white: 55.8%. Percent other: 11.00%
24. St. Anthony of Padua, Hackensack. Percent black. 25%. Percent Native American: 0.32%. Percent Asian: 3.53%. Percent white: 66.4%. Percent other: 4.75%
25. Christ Church, Hackensack. Percent black. 25%. Percent Native American: 0.32%. Percent Asian: 3.53%. Percent white: 66.4%. Percent other: 4.75%
26. St. Cyprian's Church, Hackensack. Percent black. 25%. Percent Native American: 0.32%. Percent Asian: 3.53%. Percent white: 66.4%. Percent other: 4.75%
27. St. Mark's Church, Teaneck. Percent black. 26%. Percent Native American: 0.10%. Percent Asian: 5.57%. Percent white: 66.7%. Percent other: 1.29%
28. Christ Church, Teaneck. Percent black. 26%. Percent Native American: 0.10%. Percent Asian: 5.57%. Percent white: 66.7%. Percent other: 1.29%

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Only 10 percent of the clergy in the Diocese of Newark are people of color, including:

3 Guyanese,

2 from India,

1 Jamaican,

1 Native American

1 Nigerian,

1 Panamanian,

1 South African person of color,

1 Trinidadian,

1 Ugandan,

1 African American

Only one African American in a geographic area that is 18.2 percent African American!

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Price Tags of Color

• A $13,148 disadvantage

  $29,199.00 is the median income for all citizens of the United States.

  39,066 is the median income for New Jersey.

  43,072 is the median income for the zip codes where the diocese has congregations.

  29,924 is the median income for the zip codes in which our clergy of color serve.

  
• A $41,671 disadvantage:

  178,323 is the average total 1995 revenue for the zip codes in which the diocese has congregations.

  136,652 is the average total 1995 revenue for the zip codes in which our clergy of color serve.

  

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Lily White Neighborhoods

Here are the congregations in zip codes with the fewest people of color: In descending order, starting with the whitest:

1. St. Mark's Church, Mendham. Percent white: 99.1%. Percent black. 0%. Percent Native American: 0.00%. Percent Asian: 0.43%. Percent other: 0.17%
2. St. Thomas' Church, Vernon. Percent white: 99.0%. Percent black. 0%. Percent Native American: 0.00%. Percent Asian: 0.36%. Percent other: 0.42%
3. St. Clement's Church, Hawthorne. Percent white: 98.6%. Percent black. 0%. Percent Native American: 0.05%. Percent Asian: 1.10%. Percent other: 0.11%
4. St. Mary's Church, Sparta. Percent white: 98.6%. Percent black. 0%. Percent Native American: 0.00%. Percent Asian: 0.79%. Percent other: 0.56%
5. St. Peter's Church, Essex Fells. Percent white: 98.3%. Percent black. 1%. Percent Native American: 0.10%. Percent Asian: 0.38%. Percent other: 0.57%
6. Christ Church, Newton. Percent white: 98.1%. Percent black. 1%. Percent Native American: 0.24%. Percent Asian: 0.66%. Percent other: 0.26%
7. St. Gabriel's Church, Oak Ridge/Milton. Percent white: 98.0%. Percent black. 1%. Percent Native American: 0.00%. Percent Asian: 0.74%. Percent other: 0.41%
8. St. Mary's Church, Belvidere. Percent white: 97.9%. Percent black. 1%. Percent Native American: 0.10%. Percent Asian: 0.38%. Percent other: 0.38%
9. The Church of the Incarnation, West Milford. Percent white: 97.7%. Percent black. 1%. Percent Native American: 0.32%. Percent Asian: 0.50%. Percent other: 0.51%
10. St. Peter's Church, Mountain Lakes. Percent white: 97.6%. Percent black. 0%. Percent Native American: 0.00%. Percent Asian: 2.30%. Percent other: 0.09%
11. The Church of the Transfiguration, Towaco. Percent white: 97.4%. Percent black. 1%. Percent Native American: 0.43%. Percent Asian: 1.65%. Percent other: 0.00%
12. St. Peter's Church, Washington. Percent white: 97.3%. Percent black. 2%. Percent Native American: 0.16%. Percent Asian: 0.30%. Percent other: 0.61%
13. Christ Church, Pompton Lakes. Percent white: 97.2%. Percent black. 2%. Percent Native American: 0.00%. Percent Asian: 0.91%. Percent other: 0.30%
14. St. Luke's Church (Free), Phillipsburg. Percent white: 97.1%. Percent black. 1%. Percent Native American: 0.09%. Percent Asian: 1.03%. Percent other: 0.57%
15. St. David's Church, Kinnelon. Percent white: 97.0%. Percent black. 0%. Percent Native American: 0.05%. Percent Asian: 2.40%. Percent other: 0.16%

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Hispanic Neighborhoods

Hispanics are expected to become 12% or higher of the eastern counties of New Jersey by the year 2001. "About 350,000 Hispanic immigrants come to the U.S. every year. They and their U.S.-born children should increase the number of Hispanic Americans from just under 28 million in 1996 to over 32 million in 2001." (American Demographics, ibid.)

The Diocese has not yet embraced any strategy to welcome these immigrants. We have no Hispanic clergy. Hispanic ministry as the accidental (not deliberate) outreach occurs in every inner city parish of the diocese, including Redeemer Morristown, St. Paul's Paterson, All Saints Hoboken, Grace Van Vorst in Jersey City and St. John's Union City. Christ Church Hackensack is beginning a deliberate outreach. St. Anthony of Padua in Hackensack has a program of spiritual outreach that another minister in this community calls "the best in the diocese," overseen by The Rev. Brian H. Laffler.

Diocesan support for Hispanic Ministry of any form is virtually nonexistent. Trinity, Paterson has been supported by the Diocese to a very small degree since April 1996, but it is closing in January forever. Marge Christie, my colleague on the Standing Committee and in the House of Deputies, advised me:

I hope you can blow a clear trumpet. Hispanic ministry in this diocese is even worse than it is nationally. It's a very complex subject, partly because the term Hispanic covers so much -- Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Islands, immigrant, born here -- and partly because their leanings seem to run from Roman Catholic on one end to Pentecostal on the other, and the Episcopal Church doesn't seem to fit. That's not to say we shouldn't try to figure out how to make some kind of fit.

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Locating Census Information by Zip Codes

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