Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1880 N Amherst Hwy in Amherst, VA 24521-4338. It is one of 43 churches in Amherst, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.
The vision of Bethel Baptist Church is to make an impact for God, here in Amherst, Virginia by helping people understand the enriching messages of eternal hope given to us by Jesus Christ through His words and deeds.
Bethel Baptist Church is an independent fundamental Baptist church committed to proclaiming the timeless truth of the King James Version of the Holy Bible as the infallible and inspired Word of God.
1880 N Amherst Hwy, Amherst, VA, 24521-4338Service times
- Wednesday 8am · service July thVBS Please July 12th-14th
- Wednesday 6pm · service July thVBS Please July 12th-14th
Phone: (434) 946-2400 · Website: http://www.bbcamherst.org/
Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,727 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,418 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 Bethel Baptist Church
- Discipleship Program
- Serenity Ridge Retreat
Find Bethel Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethel Baptist Church
It takes 4.5 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 about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 32.0%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Obesity: 38.6%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel Baptist Church
- Clifford Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Saint Marks Church — 1.5 mi away
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church — 1.5 mi away
- Wesleyan Church — 2.2 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Church — 2.8 mi away
- Blue Ridge Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Common Ground Cowboy Church Amherst, VA — 3.7 mi away
- Saint Stephens Church — 3.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Clifford Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Blue Ridge Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Amherst Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away