Ascension Episcopal Church
Ascension Episcopal Church is a Catholic church at 253 S Main St in Amherst, VA 24521-2636. It is one of 43 churches in Amherst, and one of 3 Catholic congregations in the city.
The mission of Ascension Church is to worship God, guided by the Spirit, by the love and teachings of Jesus, and by Episcopal tradition; to love and support one another as Christ loves us; and to support and serve our neighbors in Amherst and beyond.
253 S Main St, Amherst, VA, 24521-2636Service times
- Saturday 8am
Phone: +14349465498 · Website: https://www.ascensionamherst.org/
Ascension Episcopal Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 301 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Virginia — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
Ministries at Ascension Episcopal Church
- Meals On Wheels
- Men's Breakfast
- Mahjong Group
- Centering Prayer Group
- Ladies Lunch Outing
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The community around Ascension Episcopal Church
It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 33.1%
- Obesity: 37.4%
- Depression: 23.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Ascension Episcopal Church
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Amherst Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Epiphany - Amherst, VA — 0.4 mi away
- LeE’ — 0.5 mi away
- Amherst Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Blue Ridge Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Memorial Chapel — 2.4 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church — 4.3 mi away
- Holy Cross Catholic Church — 12.7 mi away in Lynchburg, VA
- Grace Church — 13.6 mi away
- All Saints Reformed Episcopal Church — 15.5 mi away in Lynchburg, VA