Second Baptist Church

Second Baptist Church is a church at 3939 Deodar St in East Chicago, IN 46312-2424. It is one of 89 churches in East Chicago.

3939 Deodar St, East Chicago, IN, 46312-2424

Phone: +12193984322 · Website: https://www.second.org/contact

Shares a ministry location with Saint Mark's African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Second Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 46.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 36.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 25.3%
  • Diabetes: 20.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.1%
  • Social Isolation: 35.8%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
  • Child Poverty: 31.4% (15.2–47.6%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.8% (12.4–29.1%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 16.0%
  • Unemployment: 6.2% (0.9–11.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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