New Salem Church

The community around New Salem Church

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Obesity: 40.9%
• Social Isolation: 37.5%
• Depression: 27.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
• Food Insecurity: 16.7%
• Diabetes: 13.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near New Salem Church

• Meadow Creek Missionary Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 3.1 mi away
• Saint Colmans Roman Catholic Church — 3.2 mi away in Hinton, WV
• Little Laurel Church — 3.8 mi away
• Sandstone Missionary Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
• Grandview Christian Church - GCC — 4.5 mi away in Beaver, WV
• Laurel Creek Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
• Pluto Church — 5.4 mi away
• Table Rock Church — 5.6 mi away in Beaver, WV