Sardis United Methodist Church
Sardis United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 147 Sardis Road in Amherst, VA 24521. It is one of 43 churches in Amherst.
147 Sardis Road, Amherst, VA, 24521Sardis United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 970 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Virginia — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Sardis United Methodist Church
It takes 2.8 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: 33.3%
- Obesity: 37.0%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sardis United Methodist Church
- Saint Mark Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Common Ground Cowboy Church Amherst, VA — 2.7 mi away
- Piney Grove Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Mission — 3.5 mi away
- Jerusalem Church — 3.5 mi away
- Smyrna Church — 3.8 mi away in Monroe, VA
- Shiloh Church — 4 mi away in Monroe, VA
- Amherst Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Monroe United Methodist Church — 8.9 mi away in Monroe, VA
- Amelon United Methodist — 10.8 mi away in Madison Heights, VA
- Amelon United Methodist Church — 11 mi away in Madison Heights, VA
- Nelson UMC — 12.6 mi away