St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 332 S Main St in Amherst, VA 24521-4787. It is one of 43 churches in Amherst, and one of 3 Catholic congregations in the city.
The mission of this ministry is to respond to the needs of the poor, deprived, neglected, oppressed, and sick and shut-ins of the parish and the community at large.
St. Francis of Assisi is a Roman Catholic church striving to be an instrument of peace and love through the sacramental life of Jesus Christ and service to others.
332 S Main St, Amherst, VA, 24521-4787Service times
- Saturday 2pm–4pm
Phone: (434) 946-2053 · Website: https://stfrancisamherst.org/
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 297 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Virginia — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
Ministries at St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
- Pastoral Council
- Social Outreach
- Christian Education
- Food Pantry
- Jesse Tree
- Blood Drives
- Bereavement
- Sweet Briar College Catholic Campus Ministry
- Prison Ministry
- Migrant Workers
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The community around St Francis of Assisi Catholic 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: 33.1%
- Obesity: 37.4%
- Depression: 23.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
- Church of the Epiphany - Amherst, VA — 0.2 mi away
- Ascension Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Amherst Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- LeE’ — 0.7 mi away
- Amherst Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Blue Ridge Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Memorial Chapel — 2.2 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Ascension Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church — 4.4 mi away
- Holy Cross Catholic Church — 12.5 mi away in Lynchburg, VA
- Grace Church — 13.7 mi away
- All Saints Reformed Episcopal Church — 15.3 mi away in Lynchburg, VA