New Salem Missionary Baptist Church
New Salem Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1530 Alvar St. in New Orleans, LA 70117. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 286 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission at New Salem Baptist Church is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord to as many people as possible and develop them in Christian living using the most effective means to impact the world making a positive difference in this generation.
1530 Alvar St., New Orleans, LA, 70117Service times
Sundays at 10:30 a.m (as listed)
Phone: (504) 940-5508 · Website: https://www.nsbcf.com/
New Salem Missionary 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 — 71,420 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 New Salem Missionary Baptist Church
- Community Resource Center
- Tutorial Program
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The community around New Salem Missionary 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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.
- Social Isolation: 42.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.3%
- Food Insecurity: 31.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Depression: 27.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.7%
- Poverty Rate: 24.0% (12.1–35.9%)
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Obesity: 37.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (0.6–16.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near New Salem Missionary Baptist Church
- Trinity United Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Access Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Journey Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Thessalonians Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- New Way Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Temple Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Blessed Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- John Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Taylor Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Trinity United Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Blessed Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Taylor Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Liberty Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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