Beth Salem Baptist
Beth Salem Baptist is a Baptist church in Forrest City, AR 72335. It is one of 62 churches in Forrest City, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Forrest City, AR, 72335Beth Salem Baptist is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,140 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arkansas — 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 Beth Salem Baptist
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third 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: 49.5%
- Food Insecurity: 36.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.1%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Child Poverty: 37.7% (19.2–56.2%)
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Poverty Rate: 29.3% (20.7–37.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (1.8–15.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Forrest City city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 554 residents.
Churches near Beth Salem Baptist
- First Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Poplar Grove M.B. Church — 0.3 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Forrest City — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God of Forrest City — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Forrest City — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Landmark Church — 0.9 mi away
- Union Grove Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Rusty Nails Cowboy Church — 2.6 mi away
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