Second Baptist Church
Second Baptist Church is a Baptist church in MS 38768.
The nucleus of Second Baptist Church began with both Baptist and Methodist ex-slaves planting a bush arbor in the lower edge of the “Old Pegues Estate,” known as Amma Delle Subdivision.
MS, 38768Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · School
- Wednesday 6:30pm · Bible Class
- Sunday 9:30am
Second Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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.
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The community around Second Baptist Church
It takes 5.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Child Poverty: 52.4% (38.0–66.8%)
- Obesity: 50.1%
- Food Insecurity: 41.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.6%
- Poverty Rate: 32.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 20.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.2%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (2.7–11.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Second Baptist Church
- Silver Star Church — 0.5 mi away in Rome, MS
- Rome Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rome United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Silver Star Church — 0.8 mi away in Tutwiler, MS
- New Light Church — 2 mi away in Tutwiler, MS
- Pentecostal Church of God — 2.2 mi away in Tutwiler, MS
- Friendship West Church — 3.8 mi away in Tutwiler, MS
- Whitfield Church — 3.8 mi away in Tutwiler, MS
- Wrights Chapel Church of God and Christ — 3.9 mi away in Tutwiler, MS
- Wright Temple Church Of God In Christ — 3.9 mi away in Tutwiler, MS
More Baptist churches nearby
- Silver Star Church — 0.5 mi away in Rome, MS
- Rome Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Tutwiler, MS
- Tutwiler Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Tutwiler, MS
- Frierson Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Tutwiler, MS