New Salem Baptist Church
New Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bessemer, AL 35020. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer, and one of 34 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bessemer, AL, 35020Website: https://www.newsalemmissionarybc.com
New Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 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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The community around New Salem Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 47.3%
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Food Insecurity: 41.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.8%
- Poverty Rate: 31.9% (19.7–44.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.6%
- Diabetes: 23.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.5% (12.4–28.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.8%
- Child Poverty: 26.3% (9.4–43.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Bessemer city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 425 residents.
Churches near New Salem Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church of Jonesboro Heights — 0.1 mi away
- Raimund Heights Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Good Samaritan True Holiness — 0.3 mi away
- New Light Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Seventh Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saddler's Chapel AME Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Jesus Is Lord Ministry — 0.6 mi away
- Liberty Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Mt Sinai Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Jonesboro Heights — 0.1 mi away
- Raimund Heights Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Light Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Seventh Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt. Hebron Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away