First Bible Baptist Church
First Bible Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bakersfield, CA 93308. It is one of 434 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 39 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bakersfield, CA, 93308First Bible Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,885 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around First Bible Baptist 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. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third 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.
- Poverty Rate: 39.8% (28.3–51.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.7%
- Food Insecurity: 33.1%
- Obesity: 40.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Depression: 29.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
- Unemployment: 11.8% (4.4–19.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
- Child Poverty: 24.6% (10.6–38.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Bible Baptist Church
- Shekinah Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Oildale Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- The Chapel of Grace Church — 0.2 mi away
- Riverview Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Coronado Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Transformation Church Bakersfield — 0.3 mi away
- Norris Road Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Assembly North — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Roca Eterna — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Marks United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Coronado Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mounta Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Riverview Southern Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- North Heights Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Valley Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
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