Amherst Congregational United Church of Christ
Amherst Congregational United Church of Christ is a church in Amherst, OH 44001. It is one of 29 churches in Amherst.
Amherst, OH, 44001Amherst Congregational United Church of Christ is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 287 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Ohio — 2,948 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
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The community around Amherst Congregational United Church of Christ
Within about a mile of this church, 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 nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 30.8%
- Depression: 25.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Amherst city is served by 10 churches — about one congregation for every 1,116 residents.
Churches near Amherst Congregational United Church of Christ
- Amherst Old Stone Church — 0.1 mi away
- Old Stone Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ the Rock Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Peter United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Amherst Park Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Restoration Church — 0.4 mi away
- Great Lakes Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Cornerstone Community Church — 0.7 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Saint Peter United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Brownhelm Congregational United Church of Christ — 3.4 mi away in Vermilion, OH
- Saint John United Church of Christ — 5.4 mi away in Lorain, OH
- Magyar United Church of Christ — 6.1 mi away in Elyria, OH
- First Congregational Church — 6.5 mi away in Elyria, OH