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 11 churches in Amherst Town.
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365 North Pleasant Street, Amherst Town, MA, 01002Service 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. 466 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Massachusetts — 71,352 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 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
- 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
- First Church Amherst — 0.6 mi away in Amherst, MA
- First Congregational Church — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hope Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Goodwin African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- North Leverett Baptist Church — 8.8 mi away
- 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
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 13.4 mi away in Holyoke, MA
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