Rising Star Baptist Church
Rising Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3421 Wilson Rd in Bakersfield, CA 93309-5289. It is one of 434 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 24 Baptist congregations in the city.
The vision of our church is to glorify our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, to make true disciples throughout all the nations by means of missionary activity and support, to minister the ordinances, to edify believers, and to do all that is sovereign and biblically permissible to magnify the name of Je
The mission of Rising Star Baptist Church is to love God, to love others, and to magnify the name of Jesus Christ.
3421 Wilson Rd, Bakersfield, CA, 93309-5289Service times
- Sunday 8:45am · School
Phone: +16618312567 · Website: http://thechurchwithnowalls.net/
Rising Star 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 Rising Star 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 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: 34.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Child Poverty: 35.7% (17.5–54.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Poverty Rate: 24.0% (14.7–33.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (3.8–13.4%)
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Rising Star Baptist Church
- Evangel Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Assembly of God — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica Misionera de Jesucristo Los Vados — 0.3 mi away
- Plaza Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bakersfield Central Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia De Cristo Miel Bakersfield — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Coronodo Gardens Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Chester Avenue Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
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