Saint Mary Baptist Church
Saint Mary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 187 Indian Creek Road in Amherst, VA 24521. It is one of 43 churches in Amherst, and one of 14 Baptist congregations in the city.
187 Indian Creek Road, Amherst, VA, 24521Saint Mary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,872 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.
Find Saint Mary Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Saint Mary Baptist Church
It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Obesity: 38.5%
- Social Isolation: 31.5%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (2.6–11.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Mary Baptist Church
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Roseland, VA
- Ivy Hill Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Living Word Christian Fellowship — 2.3 mi away in Arrington, VA
- Piney River Church — 3.1 mi away
- Jerusalem Church — 3.2 mi away
- Saint James Church — 3.4 mi away
- Holy Temple Church — 3.5 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Church — 3.9 mi away
- Rose Union Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Church — 4.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Roseland, VA
- Ivy Hill Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Living Word Christian Fellowship — 2.3 mi away in Arrington, VA
- Rose Union Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away