Ascension Episcopal Church
Ascension Episcopal Church is a church at 253 S Main St in Amherst, VA 24521-2636. It is one of 41 churches in Amherst.
The mission of Ascension Church is to worship God, guided by the Spirit, by the love and teachings of Jesus, and by Episcopal tradition; to love and support one another as Christ loves us; and to support and serve our neighbors in Amherst and beyond.
253 S Main St, Amherst, VA, 24521-2636Phone: +14349465498 · Website: https://www.ascensionamherst.org/
Ascension Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story.
Ministries at Ascension Episcopal Church
- Meals On Wheels
- Men's Breakfast
- Mahjong Group
- Centering Prayer Group
- Ladies Lunch Outing
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The community around Ascension Episcopal Church
It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 33.1%
- Obesity: 37.4%
- Depression: 23.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Ascension Episcopal Church
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Amherst Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Amherst Presbyterian Preschool — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Epiphany - Amherst, VA — 0.4 mi away
- LeE’ — 0.5 mi away
- Amherst Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Blue Ridge Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away