University Baptist Church
University Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bakersfield, CA 93306. It is one of 434 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 39 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bakersfield, CA, 93306Shares a ministry location with Parkside Church.
University 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 University 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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.
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Food Insecurity: 23.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.0%
- Unemployment: 8.9% (3.4–14.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Bakersfield city is served by 97 churches — about one congregation for every 3,983 residents.
Churches near University Baptist Church
- Parkside Church — 0 mi away
- Tehillah Church — 0.3 mi away
- Casa De Oracion Bakersfield — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Ni Cristo — 0.7 mi away
- Second Church of Christ Scientist — 0.8 mi away
- Ecclesia Seclorum — 0.9 mi away
- Grace Reformed Church — 1.1 mi away
- The Wilderness Church — 1.1 mi away
- University Avenue Christian Church — 1.1 mi away
- Northeast Christian Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bakersfield Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Southern Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Height Street Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- First Hispanic Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Grace General Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
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