Second Baptist Church
Second Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 424 Forster St in Harrisburg, PA 17102-1714. It is one of 221 churches in Harrisburg, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1957
424 Forster St, Harrisburg, PA, 17102-1714Service times
- Sunday 10am · Service
Phone: (717) 238-8885 · Website: http://the2nd.com
Second Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,478 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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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Latest from The 2nd (Second Baptist Church)'s YouTube channel: Sunday Worship Service September 13,2026/ Legacy in Motion Guest Pastor Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III (all videos).
The community around Second Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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: 67.0% (47.1–86.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 30.5% (17.8–43.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 10.2% (3.1–17.7%)
- Obesity: 38.2%
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Second Baptist Church
- Messiah Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- Salem United Church of Christ — 0 mi away
- Harrisburg Quaker Meeting — 0.1 mi away
- Midtown Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- German Evangelical Zion Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist — 0.2 mi away
- Cathedral Parish of Saint Patrick — 0.3 mi away
- Penna Catholic Conference — 0.3 mi away
- Second City Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pine Street Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Goodwin Memorial Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Heavengates Ministries — 1.8 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
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