Mount Salem Baptist Church
Mount Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ackerman, MS 39735. It is one of 26 churches in Ackerman, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Ackerman, MS, 39735Mount Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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.
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The community around Mount Salem Baptist Church
It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Unemployment: 15.9% (7.1–24.9%)
- Obesity: 42.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.0%
- Food Insecurity: 24.8%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.7%
- Child Poverty: 24.4% (10.3–38.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.3% (12.4–28.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Salem Baptist Church
- Church of God — 0.9 mi away
- Bethlehem Church — 1.2 mi away
- Enon Presbyterian Church — 1.4 mi away
- Ackerman Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Ackerman Church of Christ — 1.9 mi away
- Ackerman United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Mount Airy Church — 2.1 mi away in Sturgis, MS
- Gospel Temple Church of God in Christ — 2.4 mi away
- Old Lebanon Church — 3.8 mi away
- South Union Church — 4.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Ackerman Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Chester Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
- Chestnut Grove Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Sturgis, MS
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