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 41 churches in Amherst, and one of 14 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, 24521Website: https://www.mtolvbc.org/
Mount Olive Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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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
- Amherst Presbyterian Preschool — 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