New Salem Baptist Church
New Salem Baptist Church is a church at 818 Lafayette St in Houma, LA 70360-4343. It is one of 78 churches in Houma.
We are a unique body of believers made up of people from all different walks of life. Visitors often comment on the love they feel here and a sense of being home. Members often refer to this body of believers as “my church family”.
818 Lafayette St, Houma, LA, 70360-4343Phone: +19858737026 · Website: https://newsalem.org/what-we-believe
New Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around New Salem Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
- Food Insecurity: 21.8%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Depression: 25.5%
- Poverty Rate: 18.0% (7.3–28.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (5.2–21.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (1.0–17.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Salem Baptist Church
- New Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant View Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mt. Vernon Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away in Gray, LA
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Francis de Sales — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Horeb Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Barnabas Mission Station — 0.3 mi away
- El Sembrador Ministerio — 0.3 mi away
- Better Living SDA Church — 0.4 mi away