Second Avenue Baptist Church
Second Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Laurel, MS 39440. It is one of 96 churches in Laurel, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
Laurel, MS, 39440Shares a ministry location with Christ's Church of Laurel and Dying to Live.
Second Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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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 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 77.3%
- Obesity: 46.2%
- Poverty Rate: 34.0% (22.4–45.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.8% (4.7–18.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Laurel city is served by 45 churches — about one congregation for every 217 residents.
Churches near Second Avenue Baptist Church
- Dying to Live — 0 mi away
- Christ's Church of Laurel — 0 mi away
- Kingston United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Eastside Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mallalieu United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Allen Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- West Laurel Church of God — 0.7 mi away