Mount Olive Baptist Church
Mount Olive Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 160 West Court Street in Amherst, VA 24521. It is one of 43 churches in Amherst, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission as a church family is to be the serving, loving hand of Jesus to the people of Amherst and beyond.
Mount Olive Baptist Church is an independent Baptist church that’s been preaching the gospel and serving Amherst community for over 120 years! We are a congregation that is ethnically diverse and multi-generational.
Serving since 1899
160 West Court Street, Amherst, VA, 24521Service times
- Monday 6:30pm–7:30pm
Phone: (434) 946-5895 · Website: https://www.mtolvbc.org/
Mount Olive 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 Mount Olive Baptist Church
It takes 3.0 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 Mount Olive Baptist Church
- Ascension Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Amherst Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- LeE’ — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Epiphany - Amherst, VA — 0.5 mi away
- Amherst Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Blue Ridge Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Memorial Chapel — 2.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Amherst Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Blue Ridge Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Union Hill Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away