Amherst Baptist Church
Amherst Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Morganton, NC 28655. It is one of 160 churches in Morganton, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
Morganton, NC, 28655Website: http://www.amherstbaptistchurch.com
Amherst Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 71,872 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 Amherst Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.7%
- Unemployment: 8.2% (3.5–12.8%)
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Depression: 26.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
- Poverty Rate: 18.1% (10.3–25.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.4%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (7.8–18.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Amherst Baptist Church
- Zion Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Nueva Vida — 0.7 mi away
- Drexel Christian Center — 0.9 mi away
- First Assembly Of God — 1.2 mi away
- FAM Church — 1.2 mi away
- Victorious Church of God — 1.2 mi away
- Pleasant View Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Zion Church — 1.3 mi away
- Drexel Memorial Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Emmanuel Spanish Assembly of God — 1.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pleasant View Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Drexel Memorial Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Solid Rock Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Valdese, NC
- Trinity Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Valdese, NC
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
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