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.
365 North Pleasant Street, Amherst Town, MA, 01002Website: 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.
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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
- 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