Salem Baptist Church
Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Parsons, TN 38363. It is one of 28 churches in Parsons, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.
Parsons, TN, 38363Salem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,860 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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
- Worship Ministry
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The community around Salem Baptist Church
It takes 5.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Unemployment: 14.0% (1.4–26.5%)
- Obesity: 41.6%
- Depression: 29.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Poverty Rate: 21.6% (11.5–31.6%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (6.3–17.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Salem Baptist Church
- Moore Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- Suttles Chapel — 1.3 mi away
- Oak Grove Church — 2.3 mi away
- New Pleasant Ridge Church — 2.9 mi away
- Bible Hill Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Akins Chapel — 3.6 mi away in Holladay, TN
- Cross Roads Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Cedar Hill Church — 4.8 mi away
- Sulphur Spring Church — 4.8 mi away
- Franks Chapel — 4.8 mi away in Holladay, TN
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bible Hill Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Cross Roads Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Holladay, TN
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away
- Parsons First Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away