Second Baptist Church
Second Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Beckley, WV 25801. It is one of 96 churches in Beckley, and one of 19 Baptist congregations in the city.
Beckley, WV, 25801Second Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 774 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West Virginia — 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 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 48.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 32.1% (21.0–43.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 30.0%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.9%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Depression: 31.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.4%
- Child Poverty: 28.5% (9.8–47.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Beckley city is served by 44 churches — about one congregation for every 347 residents.
Churches near Second Baptist Church
- Holiness Church of Jesus — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Saint Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Unconditional Love — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Outreach For Christ Christian — 0.3 mi away
- Good Samaritan Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Luke Church of God Apostollic — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Baptist Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Memorial Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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