Salem Baptist Church

Salem Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist church at 2650 South Taylorville Road in Decatur, IL 62521. It is one of 165 churches in Decatur, and one of 2 Southern Baptist congregations in the city.

Salem Baptist Church has been around for a long time (171 years +), and has had a lot of pastors over that span (nearly 40). But, to God be the glory, His hand of blessing is still upon His church.

Serving since 1846

2650 South Taylorville Road, Decatur, IL, 62521

Service times

  • Sunday 9:30am

Phone: (217) 422-4274 · Website: https://www.sbcdecatur.com/

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 about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. About 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 38.4%
  • Social Isolation: 31.5%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Decatur city is served by 57 churches — about one congregation for every 932 residents.

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