First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 200 E Walnut St in Salem, IN 47167-2132. It is one of 44 churches in Salem, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
The mission of First Baptist is to maintain the worship of God, to study and practice the Christian life as found in the Scriptures; to seek to bring to bear upon the life of our society the teaching of Jesus, the Christ; and to promote and advance the kingdom of God throughout the earth.
First Baptist Church is a community of believers of all ages and stages of life — from young adults to growing families to senior adults. There’s something for everyone here.
200 E Walnut St, Salem, IN, 47167-2132Service times
- Sunday 9am
Phone: +18128835460 · Website: https://fbcsalemin.wordpress.com/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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
- Vacation Bible School
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 45.7%
- Poverty Rate: 36.7% (20.5–52.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.1% (6.4–33.7%)
- Social Isolation: 32.8%
- Depression: 30.0%
- Food Insecurity: 24.0%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Salem Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- Salem United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Legacy Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- Salem Wesleyan Church — 0.3 mi away
- Salem Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- St. Patrick's Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rivers of Living Waters Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Church Of God Of Prophecy — 0.7 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
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