Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Emmanuel Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Bakersfield, CA 93305. It is one of 434 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.
We seek to follow Jesus not by withdrawing from the world, but by being faithfully present in it: feeding the hungry, standing with the vulnerable, welcoming the stranger, and refusing to turn away from hard truths.
Bakersfield, CA, 93305Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Emmanuel Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 876 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across California — 15,755 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
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The community around Emmanuel Lutheran 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 more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,400 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: 48.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.4%
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.3%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (2.3–14.4%)
- Depression: 24.7%
- Poverty Rate: 21.7% (14.2–29.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bakersfield city is served by 97 churches — about one congregation for every 3,983 residents.
Churches near Emmanuel Lutheran Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- St. Joseph Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Word of Life Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal — 0.4 mi away
- Rivers Of Living Waters — 0.4 mi away
- Bethany Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Vida Nueva — 0.5 mi away
- Ambassadors For Christ International Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Grace Lutheran Church — 2 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 3 mi away
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 3.7 mi away
- Lutheran Church of Prayer — 4.3 mi away
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