Salem Baptist Church
Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 500 East Park Street in Champaign, IL 61820. It is one of 97 churches in Champaign, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
500 East Park Street, Champaign, IL, 61820Service times
- Sunday 10:50am
Phone: (217) 356-8176 · Website: http://www.salembaptistchurchcu.org/
Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,417 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 Salem Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 67.9% (48.1–87.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 53.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.5%
- Food Insecurity: 31.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Champaign city is served by 45 churches — about one congregation for every 1,849 residents.
Churches near Salem Baptist Church
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Mary Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Park Avenue Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Holy Temple Church — 0.3 mi away in Urbana, IL
- GHTC Fellowship Hall — 0.3 mi away in Urbana, IL
- Sheriff's Temple AOH Church — 0.3 mi away
- University Place Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Anchor Church — 0.3 mi away
- Dublin Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away in Urbana, IL
- Grove Street Church of God — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Morning Star Free Will Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Urbana, IL
- University Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Urbana, IL
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