New Light Church
New Light Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Salemburg, NC 28385. It is one of 11 churches in Salemburg.
Salemburg, NC, 28385New Light Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,375 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around New Light Church
It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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.
- Obesity: 42.6%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
- Poverty Rate: 23.6% (11.2–36.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.1% (8.6–23.6%)
- Depression: 24.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Light Church
- Salemburg Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Evergreen United Holy Church — 1.2 mi away
- Zoar Church — 1.3 mi away
- Mingle Hill Church — 1.6 mi away
- Peniel Church — 3.3 mi away in Roseboro, NC
- Beulah Church — 3.4 mi away in Roseboro, NC
- Roseboro First Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Roseboro, NC
- Corinth Church — 3.6 mi away
- Snow Hill Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Roseboro, NC
- Mt Pleasant Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Clinton, NC
More Methodist churches nearby
- Hall's United Methodist Church — 6.1 mi away in Autryville, NC
- First United Methodist Church — 9.5 mi away in Clinton, NC
- Grace United Methodist Church — 9.8 mi away in Clinton, NC
- Clinton Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 9.9 mi away in Clinton, NC
- Holly Grove Holiness Church — 10.6 mi away in Clinton, NC
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