Second Baptist Church
Second Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 36 Vassar Street in Poughkeepsie, NY 12601. It is one of 81 churches in Poughkeepsie, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
36 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12601Second Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,495 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 31.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.4% (11.7–27.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (2.9–13.4%)
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
- Poverty Rate: 19.4% (8.7–30.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Poughkeepsie city is served by 25 churches — about one congregation for every 1,268 residents.
Churches near Second Baptist Church
- Saint Joseph's Convent — 0.1 mi away
- Spanish SDA Church — 0.2 mi away
- Living Water Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John The Baptist Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Congregational United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Green Chapel — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Light Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Living Water Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John The Baptist Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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