First Southern Baptist Church
First Southern Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bakersfield, CA 93305. It is one of 434 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 39 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bakersfield, CA, 93305Service times
- Sunday 11:15am
- Friday 4pm
- Tuesday 5:30pm
First Southern 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 Southern 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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 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: 33.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Depression: 23.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (2.4–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Southern Baptist Church
- Jesus Cares Multi Cultural Ministries Inc — 0.2 mi away
- Alta Vista Assembly of God — 0.2 mi away
- Casa de Gloria - Bakersfield CA — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Reformed Church — 0.3 mi away
- Height Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- El Buen Pastor Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- San Clemente Mission Parish — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Clement Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Rivers Of Living Waters — 0.6 mi away
- Word of Life Worship Center — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Height Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Hispanic Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Grace General Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- University Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Gods Church of Deliverance — 2 mi away
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