The Salt Network
The Salt Network is a Baptist church at 510 S 17th St in Ames, IA 50010-8197. It is one of 61 churches in Ames, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
The Salt Network began with 8 churches and was formed with the express purpose of planting churches in major university cities.
510 S 17th St, Ames, IA, 50010-8197Website: https://www.thesaltnetwork.com/
The Salt Network is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 596 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 71,418 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 The Salt Network
- College Ministry
- Church Planting
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The community around The Salt Network
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. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, 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.
- Poverty Rate: 32.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (3.2–14.1%)
- Depression: 23.7%
- Food Insecurity: 17.3% (13.3–22.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near The Salt Network
- Harvest Vineyard Church — 0.1 mi away
- Harvest Vineyard Church — 0.5 mi away
- ReNew Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Church — 1 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Ames Church of the Nazarene — 1.1 mi away
- House of Refuge — 1.4 mi away
- Body of Christ Church — 1.4 mi away
- Lutheran Church of Hope - Ames — 1.5 mi away
- Ames First United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Friendship Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Ames — 1.8 mi away
- Cornerstone Church — 2.6 mi away
- Grand Avenue Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- CrossRoad Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away