Salem Baptist Church
Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sumter, SC 29150. It is one of 206 churches in Sumter, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
The church's mission, is to help people discover Jesus and deepen their personal relationship with Him.
New Salem Sumter is a community of ordinary individuals who place their trust in Jesus, asking Him to help them discover a life that is greater than they could every imagine.
Sumter, SC, 29150Service times
WEDNESDAYS • 6:00 - 7:30 P.M (as listed)
Website: http://www.newsalemsumter.com/
Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,009 congregations of the Baptist family gather across South Carolina — 71,417 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 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 more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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: 53.9%
- Food Insecurity: 44.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.2%
- Poverty Rate: 35.2% (23.1–47.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.2%
- Diabetes: 27.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.6%
- Unemployment: 16.2% (7.0–25.4%)
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (5.6–17.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Sumter city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near Salem Baptist Church
- Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God By Faith — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Clinton Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Olden Chapel UME Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jehovah Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Upper Room Pentecostal Holiness Temple — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Jehovah Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Salem Avenue Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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