New Salem Baptist Church
New Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 818 Lafayette St in Houma, LA 70360-4343. It is one of 87 churches in Houma, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
We are a unique body of believers made up of people from all different walks of life. Visitors often comment on the love they feel here and a sense of being home. Members often refer to this body of believers as “my church family”.
818 Lafayette St, Houma, LA, 70360-4343Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · Mornings Dates for 2026 As NeededTime Place
Phone: (985) 873-7026 · Website: https://newsalem.org/what-we-believe
New Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 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 New Salem Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
- Food Insecurity: 21.8%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Depression: 25.5%
- Poverty Rate: 18.0% (7.3–28.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (5.2–21.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (1.0–17.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Salem Baptist Church
- New Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant View Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mt. Vernon Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away in Gray, LA
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint Francis de Sales — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Horeb Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Barnabas Mission Station — 0.3 mi away
- El Sembrador Ministerio — 0.3 mi away
- Better Living SDA Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rock of Ages Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Plymouth Rock Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Houma — 0.7 mi away
- New Rising Sun Baptist Church — 1 mi away