First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Salem, IL 62881. It is one of 40 churches in Salem, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Salem First Baptist Church exists to impact our community and beyond by engaging in evangelism (we were made for a mission), discipleship (we were created to become like Christ), fellowship (we were formed for God’s family), ministry (we were shaped for serving God), and worship (we were planned for God’s pleasure).
Salem, IL, 62881Service times
- Thursday 6:30pm · April 2nd
- Friday 6:30pm · April 3rd
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8am
First 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- Outreach
- Special Needs
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Latest from Salem First Baptist Church's YouTube channel: 8-19-26 Wednesday Night 1 Corinthians (all videos).
The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 33.9%
- Child Poverty: 30.8% (13.9–47.8%)
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
- Poverty Rate: 21.5% (14.6–28.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.3%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Salem city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 274 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Theresa of Avila Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Thomas Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ohio Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Salem Grace United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Salem Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wesleyan Bible Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Salem Church of God — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First General Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Calvary Free Will Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away