Saint Mark Baptist Church
Saint Mark Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 131 Rose Petals Lane in Amherst, VA 24521. It is one of 43 churches in Amherst, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.
131 Rose Petals Lane, Amherst, VA, 24521Saint Mark 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 Saint Mark Baptist 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: 33.2%
- Obesity: 37.1%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Mark Baptist Church
- Sardis United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Piney Grove Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Common Ground Cowboy Church Amherst, VA — 2.9 mi away
- Jerusalem Church — 3.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Mission — 3.8 mi away
- Smyrna Church — 3.9 mi away in Monroe, VA
- Mount Pleasant Church — 4 mi away
- Shiloh Church — 4.2 mi away in Monroe, VA
- Amherst Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Piney Grove Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Amherst Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away