Second Baptist Church
Second Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Perth Amboy, NJ 08861. It is one of 77 churches in Perth Amboy, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Perth Amboy, NJ, 08861Second Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 728 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 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 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 32.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 31.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
- Unemployment: 12.1% (6.7–17.5%)
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.8% (13.1–26.5%)
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Poverty Rate: 17.0% (11.2–22.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Perth Amboy city is served by 36 churches — about one congregation for every 1,534 residents.
Churches near Second Baptist Church
- Saint Paul's Evangelical Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cathedral International — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — 0.2 mi away
- First Swedish Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Mercy Church — 0.2 mi away
- Perth Amboy Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Assembly Of God Shekinah — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lhcc Perth Amboy, Nj — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cathedral International — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- South Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in New York, NY
- Temple Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Fords, NJ
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