Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Bakersfield, CA 93307. It is one of 434 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.

Bakersfield, CA, 93307

Shares a ministry location with New Horizon Baptist Church Of Bakersfield.

Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 814 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 25,370 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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The community around Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal 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. More than half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 56.6%
  • Child Poverty: 53.0% (36.0–69.9%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 47.4%
  • Obesity: 45.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 44.7% (32.7–56.7%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 42.5%
  • Social Isolation: 42.4%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.1%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.8%
  • Transportation Barriers: 29.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.6%
  • Diabetes: 19.3%
  • Unemployment: 14.2% (7.8–20.7%)
  • Depression: 24.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (6.9–22.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Bakersfield city is served by 97 churches — about one congregation for every 3,983 residents.

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