Bethel Second Baptist Church

Bethel Second Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 405 East Hadley Avenue in Las Cruces, NM 88001. It is one of 165 churches in Las Cruces, and one of 19 Baptist congregations in the city.

Part of Mount Olive Missionary Baptist State Convention

405 East Hadley Avenue, Las Cruces, NM, 88001

Phone: (575) 523-7850 · Website: https://www.bsbchurch.org/

Bethel Second Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 374 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Mexico — 71,417 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 Bethel Second Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than 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 the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 44.1% (24.7–63.5%)
  • Poverty Rate: 41.9% (30.0–53.9%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 35.9%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 25.2%
  • Diabetes: 19.8%
  • Obesity: 41.0%
  • Social Isolation: 34.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.5%
  • Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
  • Unemployment: 8.6% (3.8–13.5%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Las Cruces city is served by 96 churches — about one congregation for every 981 residents.

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