First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 4600 Stockdale Highway in Bakersfield, CA 93309. It is one of 313 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.
To bring people to the transforming power of Jesus Christ through membership in His family and equipping them for ministry in the church and the world.
4600 Stockdale Highway, Bakersfield, CA, 93309Phone: (661) 325-1267 · Website: http://www.fumcbakersfield.org/
First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 25,989 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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Upcoming events at First United Methodist Church
- Thu, Nov 5 · 6:30 PM: Chancel Choir Rehearsal — Choir & Music Room
- Fri, Nov 6 · 7 PM: Alcoholics Anonymous
- Sat, Nov 7 · 9 AM: Women's Gathering
- Sun, Nov 8 · 7:30 AM: Chapel Worship
- Sun, Nov 8 · 9 AM: Traditional Worship
From First United Methodist Church's public calendar (http://www.fumcbakersfield.org/). Times are the church's local time.
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Latest from First UMC Bakersfield's YouTube channel: 11/1/2026 The Heritage of the Saints (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist 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 2,300 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: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.8%
- Unemployment: 12.0% (6.2–17.9%)
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
- Obesity: 38.6%
- Depression: 24.7%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (11.1–28.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.0%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Bakersfield city is served by 97 churches — about one congregation for every 3,983 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- Bakersfield Korean Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Stockdale Southern Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Vision Plus Church Bakersfield — 0.4 mi away
- Covenant Community Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
- Harvest Foursquare Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bakersfield First Assembly — 0.7 mi away
- Kern Christian Ministries — 0.7 mi away
- City Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Victory Outreach Bakersfield Campus — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Cain Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.7 mi away
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.7 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Saint Marks United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away
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