First Missionary Baptist Church
First Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bakersfield, CA 93304. It is one of 434 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 39 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1944
Bakersfield, CA, 93304Service times
- Sunday 10:15am
First Missionary 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 Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 two thousand 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: 50.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.0%
- Poverty Rate: 31.3% (18.9–43.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.9%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Child Poverty: 39.7% (20.2–59.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.7% (4.5–27.0%)
- Depression: 24.9%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (1.9–14.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Missionary Baptist Church
- Nuestra Senora Del Carmen — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ Christian Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Bakersfield Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Chester Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Valley Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- South Gate Redemption Center — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Assembly Church — 0.3 mi away
- Plaza Iglesia Cristiana — 0.4 mi away
- Mision Apostolica De La Fe En — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Chester Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shiloh Landmark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Coronodo Gardens Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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