Blue Ridge Baptist Church
Blue Ridge Baptist Church is a church at 205 Blue Ridge Ln in Amherst, VA 24521-4301. It is one of 43 churches in Amherst.
205 Blue Ridge Ln, Amherst, VA, 24521-4301Phone: (434) 946-2557 · Website: https://www.blueridgebaptistchurch.org/about.html
Blue Ridge 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 — 71,417 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 Blue Ridge Baptist Church
It takes 3.3 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: 32.8%
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Depression: 23.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.2%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Blue Ridge Baptist Church
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Amherst Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- LeE’ — 0.7 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Amherst Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Ascension Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away
- Church of the Epiphany - Amherst, VA — 1.5 mi away
- Common Ground Cowboy Church Amherst, VA — 2.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Amherst Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Union Hill Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away