First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 226 South Broad Street in Salem, VA 24153. It is one of 85 churches in Salem, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
As followers of Christ, our mission is to evangelize the lost through personal soul-winning, visitation and preaching of the word of God. To edify believers through the systematic teaching of the bible and to reach the masses through an energetic missionary program.
Pastor Melton W. Johnson is a native of Houston, Texas and is married to the former Margaree Pearson of Sumter, South Carolina iwith their daughter Victoria.
Serving since 1867
226 South Broad Street, Salem, VA, 24153Service times
Monday before the 1st Sunday at 7:00 p.m. (as listed)
Phone: (540) 389-9648 · Website: http://www.firstbaptistchurchsalem.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,418 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 First Baptist Church
- Sunday School
- Prayer Meeting & Bible Study
- Missionary Ministry
- Deacon’s Ministry
- Deaconess’ Ministry
- Trustees’ Ministry
- Usher Ministry
- Youth Council
- Music Ministry
- Pastor’s Aid Ministry
- Media Ministry
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The community around First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Depression: 25.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Salem city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 874 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- John Wesley Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Cave — 0.2 mi away
- Salem Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- College Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Salem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Evangelical Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Salem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away