Second Baptist Church
Second Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 611 Jackson Avenue East in Oxford, MS 38655. It is one of 98 churches in Oxford, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
The nucleus of Second Baptist Church began with both Baptist and Methodist ex-slaves planting a bush arbor in the lower edge of the “Old Pegues Estate,” known as Amma Delle Subdivision.
611 Jackson Avenue East, Oxford, MS, 38655Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (662) 234-7868 · Website: http://www.secondbaptistoxford.org/
Second Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 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 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Poverty Rate: 34.9% (23.7–46.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.8% (15.7–26.2%)
- Depression: 23.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Oxford city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 969 residents.
Churches near Second Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Peters Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ole Miss BSU — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Oxford-University United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- UKirk Ole Miss — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Oxford First UMC — 0.4 mi away
- The Orchard — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ole Miss BSU — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Bible Church — 0.7 mi away
- Grace Bible Church of Oxford — 0.9 mi away
- North Oxford Baptist Church — 2 mi away
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