New Salem Baptist Church
New Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in MS 39647.
MS, 39647New Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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.
Find New Salem Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around New Salem Baptist Church
It takes 6.1 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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.
- Child Poverty: 36.6% (19.0–54.3%)
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
- Poverty Rate: 23.1% (13.3–32.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.0%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (5.8–17.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Salem Baptist Church
- Bethel Church — 2 mi away
- Cool Spring Church — 2.3 mi away
- McCall Church — 3.6 mi away
- Ramah Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Bethel Church — 4.6 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
- Damascus Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
- Wright Church — 5.1 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Meadville, MS
More Baptist churches nearby
- Ramah Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Damascus Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
- Pleasant Valley Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Meadville, MS
- Eddicetown Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away