Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 552 Highway 62 East, Salem, AR, 72576.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Tuesday at 10am (Morning Manna); Wednesday at 6pm (Adults). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Salem, AR is a Southern Baptist church.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 552 Highway 62 East in Salem, AR 72576. It is one of 13 churches in Salem.

At Salem FBC, we hold to the teachings of the Bible which is God's inerrant & infallible Word.

Serving since 1887

552 Highway 62 East, Salem, AR, 72576

Service times

Tuesday 10am · Morning Manna
Wednesday 6pm · Adults

Phone: (870) 895-2330 · Website: http://salemfirstbaptist.org/

First Baptist Church 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.

Ministries at First Baptist Church

Children's Ministry
Youth Ministry
Adult Ministry

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The community around First Baptist Church

It takes 5.3 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

Social Isolation: 32.7%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
Diabetes: 17.2%
Obesity: 39.5%
Depression: 26.6%
Poverty Rate: 21.3% (14.6–28.0%)
Food Insecurity: 19.8%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (7.8–15.5%)
Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%
Unemployment: 6.0% (1.6–10.5%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First Baptist Church

Salem First Assembly of God — 0.4 mi away
Salem Church of Christ — 1.3 mi away
Christ Fellowship Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
First Missionary Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
Salem Praise and Worship Fellowship — 2.5 mi away
Assembly of God — 3.1 mi away
Liberty Hill Church — 4.8 mi away
Burks Chapel — 5.1 mi away
Heart Church — 5.5 mi away
Gum Spring Church — 6 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

Christ Fellowship Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
First Missionary Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
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First Baptist Church — 9.9 mi away in Horseshoe Bend, AR
First Baptist Church of Horseshoe Bend — 10 mi away in Horseshoe Bend, AR

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