Where is First Baptist Church of Amherst located?

First Baptist Church of Amherst is at 365 North Pleasant Street, Amherst Town, MA, 01002.

What denomination is First Baptist Church of Amherst?

First Baptist Church of Amherst in Amherst Town, MA is a Baptist church.

First Baptist Church of Amherst

First Baptist Church of Amherst is a Baptist church at 365 North Pleasant Street in Amherst Town, MA 01002. It is one of 12 churches in Amherst Town.

Services in Chinese

365 North Pleasant Street, Amherst Town, MA, 01002

Service times

Sunday Worship 10:00am (as listed)

Website: https://www.fbcamherst.org/

Shares a ministry location with MERCYhouse.

First Baptist Church of Amherst is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 468 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Massachusetts — 71,418 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.

Find First Baptist Church of Amherst on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.

The community around First Baptist Church of Amherst

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. Nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,300 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.

Social Isolation: 45.8%
Unemployment: 13.7% (8.3–19.1%)
Depression: 30.1%
Poverty Rate: 22.8% (11.3–36.8%)
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Amherst Town city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 2,568 residents.

Churches near First Baptist Church of Amherst

MERCYhouse — 0 mi away in Amherst, MA
Mercy House — 0 mi away in Amherst, MA
Amherst Korean Church — 0.2 mi away in Amherst, MA
Newman Center — 0.3 mi away in Amherst, MA
St Brigid's Church — 0.4 mi away
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst — 0.4 mi away in Amherst, MA
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.6 mi away
First Church Amherst — 0.6 mi away in Amherst, MA
First Congregational Church — 0.6 mi away
Grace Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

North Leverett Baptist Church — 8.8 mi away
Our Lady of the Hills Parish — 9.1 mi away in Haydenville, MA
Second Baptist Church — 10.1 mi away in South Hadley, MA
Morning Star Baptist Church — 12.2 mi away in South Hadley, MA
Beulah Baptist Church — 12.9 mi away in Chicopee, MA

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