Salem Baptist Church

Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 321 Old Summerville Rd in Summerville, SC 29486. It is one of 152 churches in Summerville, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.

321 Old Summerville Rd, Summerville, SC, 29486

Phone: (843) 871-1200

Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,022 congregations of the Baptist family gather across South 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 Salem Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 41.8%
  • Child Poverty: 35.2% (19.0–51.3%)
  • Social Isolation: 33.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 22.2% (13.4–31.0%)
  • Depression: 24.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (9.3–19.4%)
  • Diabetes: 14.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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