Second Avenue Baptist Church
Second Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 823 E 2nd Ave. in Rome, GA 30161. It is one of 198 churches in Rome, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
Wheelchair accessible
823 E 2nd Ave., Rome, GA, 30161Service times
- Wednesday 6pm
Phone: (706) 232-3663 · Website: http://www.sabcrome.com/
Second Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,867 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 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.
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The community around Second Avenue 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. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Poverty Rate: 35.3% (21.9–48.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.7%
- Obesity: 43.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.1%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.9% (7.6–22.2%)
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.2–11.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Rome city is served by 56 churches — about one congregation for every 641 residents.
Churches near Second Avenue Baptist Church
- Second Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Alliance Church — 0.3 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- House Of Prayer — 0.5 mi away
- Holiness Church — 0.7 mi away
- East Rome Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Life Church — 0.8 mi away
- East Rome Church of God — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- East Rome Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Rome — 0.9 mi away
- South Broad Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away