St. John's Lutheran Church
St. John's Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 4500 Buena Vista Road in Bakersfield, CA 93311. It is one of 434 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 5 Lutheran congregations in the city.
4500 Buena Vista Road, Bakersfield, CA, 93311St. John's Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 876 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across California — 15,755 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
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Latest from SJLCBakersfield's YouTube channel: 10:30am Contemporary Worship • 2026/08/02 (all videos).
The community around St. John's Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on, and about 1 in 5 the people here were born in another country. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (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 St. John's Lutheran Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- Oaks Community Church — 0.7 mi away
- Celebrate Recovery — 0.8 mi away
- St. Demiana Coptic Orthodox Church — 1.5 mi away
- Living Grace Community Church — 1.5 mi away
- Grace Bible Church Of Bakersfield — 1.5 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.6 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.8 mi away
- Kern Christian Center — 1.9 mi away
- Open Door Fellowship — 2 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Redeemer Lutheran Church — 5.9 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 7.5 mi away
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church — 9.3 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 10.2 mi away
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