St. Mark's Episcopal Church
St. Mark's Episcopal Church is a Catholic church at 670 Patrick Henry Hwy in Amherst, VA 24521-3982. It is one of 43 churches in Amherst, and one of 3 Catholic congregations in the city.
At St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, our mission is to seek and serve Christ, honoring Him through outreach to our neighbors, our community, and the world by supporting and participating in our ministries.
Located in the historic village of Clifford, Virginia, we are a vibrant and inclusive congregation within the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.
670 Patrick Henry Hwy, Amherst, VA, 24521-3982Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: +14348414000 · Website: https://www.stmarksclifford.org/
Shares a ministry location with Saint Marks Church.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 301 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Virginia — 19,012 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. Mark's Episcopal Church
- Community Dinners
- Habitat for Humanity
- Music and Arts Programs
- Holiday Cookie Walk and Bazaar
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The community around St. Mark's Episcopal Church
It takes 4.4 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 about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 32.2%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Obesity: 38.2%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. Mark's Episcopal Church
- Saint Marks Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Clifford Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Church — 2.3 mi away
- Common Ground Cowboy Church Amherst, VA — 2.4 mi away
- Blue Ridge Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Amherst Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Wesleyan Church — 3.6 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Ascension Episcopal Church — 4.3 mi away
- St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 4.4 mi away
- Grace Church — 9.5 mi away
- St Mary's Catholic Church — 12.3 mi away in Lovingston, VA
- Holy Cross Catholic Church — 16.9 mi away in Lynchburg, VA