Bethany United Methodist Church
Bethany United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Bakersfield, CA 93305. It is one of 434 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.
Bakersfield, CA, 93305Shares a ministry location with Centro Cristiano Agape.
Bethany United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 814 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 25,370 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 Bethany United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 51.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 45.3%
- Obesity: 45.1%
- Child Poverty: 43.2% (25.2–61.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 40.5% (29.6–51.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 38.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.9%
- Diabetes: 20.1%
- Unemployment: 19.9% (10.7–29.1%)
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (6.9–18.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Bakersfield city is served by 97 churches — about one congregation for every 3,983 residents.
Churches near Bethany United Methodist Church
- Centro Cristiano Agape — 0 mi away
- Baker Street Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Apostolica de la Fe en Cristo Jesus en Bakersfield California USA — 0.1 mi away
- Full Gospel Lighthouse — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Nuevo Amanecer — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Wellspring Bakersfield — 0.2 mi away
- Liberty Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Cristo Manantial de Vida. — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Cain Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Gathering Place — 2.5 mi away
- Ogleby Hall — 2.5 mi away
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