Salem Baptist Church
Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3131 Lake Street in Omaha, NE 68111. It is one of 582 churches in Omaha, and one of 61 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission at Salem is to honor God, evangelize the unsaved, and train disciples who make a positive impact, all in the name of Jesus and through the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Salem Baptist Church is transforming lives by Exalting the Savior, Evangelizing the Lost, Equipping the Saints and Expanding the Kingdom of God.
3131 Lake Street, Omaha, NE, 68111Service times
- Sunday 9am · School New Members Class Discipleship Classes
Phone: (402) 505-9973 · Website: http://www.salembc.org/
Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 298 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Nebraska — 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.
Ministries at Salem Baptist Church
- Food pantry
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The community around Salem 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 50.3%
- Food Insecurity: 48.4%
- Child Poverty: 48.3% (30.8–65.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 40.1% (27.9–52.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.6%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (10.3–22.5%)
- Unemployment: 10.6% (3.4–17.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Omaha city is served by 376 churches — about one congregation for every 1,277 residents.
Churches near Salem Baptist Church
- Sharon Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friends of Christ Evangelical Church — 0.3 mi away
- Immanuel Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Thine Will Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Deliverance Church — 0.3 mi away
- Robinson Memorial Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Temple Church — 0.5 mi away
- Antioch Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jesus Christ Community Apostolic Faith Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Friends of Christ Evangelical Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Matthews Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away