Amherst Baptist Church
Amherst Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 100 Willow Ridge Dr in Amherst, NY 14228-3516. It is one of 15 churches in Amherst.
The fellowship of believers that eventually became what is today known as Amherst Baptist Church started as a modest Bible study of transplanted Southern Baptists in the fall of 1957.
100 Willow Ridge Dr, Amherst, NY, 14228-3516Service times
- Tuesday 6pm–8pm · evenings -
Phone: (716) 691-9456 · Website: https://www.amherstbaptist.com/
Amherst Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,465 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 71,419 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.
Ministries at Amherst Baptist Church
- Youth Ministry
- Resource Center
- Food Pantry
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Latest from Amherst Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Ernest Hoefner Memorial Service (all videos).
The community around Amherst Baptist Church
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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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: 32.9%
- Poverty Rate: 18.0% (11.4–24.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Amherst Baptist Church
- Saint Christopher's Roman Catholic Church — 1 mi away in Tonawanda, NY
- First Trinity Lutheran Church — 1.1 mi away in Tonawanda, NY
- Zion United Church of Christ — 1.2 mi away in Tonawanda, NY
- Sisters of St. Francis — 1.7 mi away in Tonawanda, NY
- H2O Buffalo — 1.8 mi away in Buffalo, NY
- St. Amelia's RC Church — 1.9 mi away in Tonawanda, NY
- St Leo the Great Roman Catholic Church — 1.9 mi away
- Amherst Church of the Nazarene — 1.9 mi away in Buffalo, NY
- Grace and Truth Church — 1.9 mi away
- The Vintage Church Buffalo — 1.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Restoration Church — 2.5 mi away in Buffalo, NY
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Getzville, NY
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in North Tonawanda, NY
- Bethel Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Getzville, NY
- St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church — 3.3 mi away in Buffalo, NY