Mercy House
Mercy House is a church at 396 North Pleasant Street in Amherst, MA 01002. It is one of 9 churches in Amherst.
396 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002Service times
- Sunday 10am
- Sunday 6pm
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The community around Mercy House
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: 46.1%
- Unemployment: 13.9% (8.6–19.2%)
- Depression: 30.2%
- Poverty Rate: 22.3% (10.7–36.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
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 Mercy House
- First Baptist Church of Amherst — 0 mi away in Amherst Town, MA
- MERCYhouse — 0 mi away
- Amherst Korean Church — 0.2 mi away
- Newman Center — 0.3 mi away
- St Brigid's Church — 0.4 mi away in Amherst Town, MA
- Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.6 mi away in Amherst Town, MA
- First Church Amherst — 0.6 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.6 mi away in Amherst Town, MA
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away in Amherst Town, MA