Gathering Place

Service times

• Sunday 10am · mornings

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Latest from Gathering Place Church's YouTube channel: Little Sins Matter | Pastor Mark Cowpersmith (all videos).

The community around Gathering Place

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. More than a third 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: 40.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 31.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.7%
• Obesity: 40.1%
• Social Isolation: 39.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
• Poverty Rate: 22.5% (12.5–32.5%)
• Transportation Barriers: 20.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.1%
• Diabetes: 15.6%
• Unemployment: 8.1% (3.7–12.5%)
• Depression: 23.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Gathering Place

• Sunday School building — 0 mi away
• Wesley United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
• Ogleby Hall — 0 mi away
• Freedom Faith Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
• United Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
• First Southern Hispanic Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Greater Bakersfield Ministries — 0.7 mi away
• East Hills Nazarene Church — 0.7 mi away
• Bakersfield Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.8 mi away
• Calvary Bakersfield — 0.8 mi away