New Salem Baptist Church
New Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sparta, NC 28675. It is one of 36 churches in Sparta, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1862 · Part of Southern Baptist Convention
Sparta, NC, 28675New Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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 New Salem Baptist Church
It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, 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.
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Obesity: 36.4%
- Social Isolation: 31.1%
- Child Poverty: 26.5% (10.7–42.3%)
- Depression: 25.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Food Insecurity: 16.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (8.8–18.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Salem Baptist Church
- Pine Swamp Church — 0.1 mi away
- God's Will Missionary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 1.6 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 1.8 mi away
- Whitehead Union Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Landmark Union Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Liberty Missionary Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Union Primitive Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 2.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- God's Will Missionary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 1.6 mi away
- Whitehead Union Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Landmark Union Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
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