West Salem Baptist Church
West Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Richton, MS 39476. It is one of 48 churches in Richton, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Richton, MS, 39476Service times
- Sunday 9:15am · School Corporate Prayer
- Sunday 10am · School Corporate Prayer
- Sunday 10:30am · Worship
- Wednesday 6:30pm · Night Service
West 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.
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Latest from West Salem Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Sermon | August 2nd, 2026 | A Good Steward of Christ’s Grace | 2 Peter 1:5-9 (all videos).
The community around West Salem Baptist Church
It takes 6.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
- Poverty Rate: 24.4% (13.5–35.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.8%
- Unemployment: 12.0% (4.0–21.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (4.8–18.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near West Salem Baptist Church
- Bethel Church — 0.8 mi away
- Piave Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Union Grove Church — 6 mi away
- Church of God — 6 mi away in State Line, MS
- Mount Zion Church — 6.2 mi away
- County Line Church — 6.2 mi away in State Line, MS
- Pine Grove Church — 6.5 mi away in State Line, MS
- New Lovewell Church — 6.5 mi away
- Lovewell Church — 6.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 6.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Grove Church — 8.9 mi away
- Trinity Free Will Baptist Church — 10 mi away in Waynesboro, MS
- First Baptist Church of Clara — 10.5 mi away
- Brewer Baptist Church — 10.7 mi away
- Big Creek Church — 11.5 mi away in Waynesboro, MS
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