Second Baptist Church
Second Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1717 Benson Avenue in Evanston, IL 60201. It is one of 82 churches in Evanston, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
1717 Benson Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60201Service times
- Sunday, Wednesday 8:15am · Prayer Bible Study Office Hours M-F
- Sunday, Wednesday 6pm · Prayer Bible Study Office Hours M-F
- Sunday, Wednesday 7pm · Prayer Bible Study Office Hours M-F
- Sunday, Wednesday 9am · Prayer Bible Study Office Hours M-F
Website: http://secondbaptistevanston.org/
Second Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 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
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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: 35.6% (26.7–44.5%)
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Unemployment: 12.0% (4.6–19.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 15.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Evanston city is served by 46 churches — about one congregation for every 1,592 residents.
Churches near Second Baptist Church
- Saint James Armenian Church — 0 mi away
- Evangelical Covenant Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Alice Millar Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Vail Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- The Church of Christ the King — 0.3 mi away
- Lake Street Church of Evanston — 0.3 mi away
- Living Hope Of Calvary Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lake Street Church of Evanston — 0.3 mi away
- Living Hope Of Calvary Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Springfield Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away