Second Baptist Church
Second Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 136 North Green Street in Ottumwa, IA 52501. It is one of 70 churches in Ottumwa, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
136 North Green Street, Ottumwa, IA, 52501Second Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 601 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 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 Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Food Insecurity: 21.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Child Poverty: 22.5% (10.2–35.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.8% (12.7–31.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Ottumwa city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 285 residents.
Churches near Second Baptist Church
- Jubilee Bible Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Mary of the Visitation — 0.2 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Heartland Assembly of God — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Bridge Church - Ottumwa Campus — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Court Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Ottumwa Baptist Temple — 1.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- North Court Baptist Church — 2 mi away