Second Baptist Church
Second Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 424 Northwest Laurent Street in Topeka, KS 66608. It is one of 253 churches in Topeka, and one of 31 Baptist congregations in the city.
424 Northwest Laurent Street, Topeka, KS, 66608Website: http://www.sbctopeka.org
Second Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 677 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Kansas — 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. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 45.6%
- Food Insecurity: 26.8%
- Social Isolation: 33.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.3%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (8.9–22.3%)
- Depression: 25.6%
- Poverty Rate: 21.5% (13.4–29.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (1.6–11.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Topeka city is served by 131 churches — about one congregation for every 923 residents.
Churches near Second Baptist Church
- Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Open Way Full Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Topeka Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Family of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kansas Avenue United Methodist — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Church of God In Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Way Topeka — 0.4 mi away
- Imago Dei — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Topeka Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- West Side Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Heritage Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away