First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 226 South Broad Street, Salem, VA, 24153 in Salem, VA 24153. It is one of 70 churches in Salem, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
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, 24153, Salem, VA, 24153Website: http://www.firstbaptistchurchsalem.org/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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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