Virgin Mary Life-Giving Spring Antiochian Orthodox Church
Virgin Mary Life-Giving Spring Antiochian Orthodox Church is a Orthodox church at 6655 Ming Ave in Bakersfield, CA 93309-3491. It is one of 432 churches in Bakersfield, and one of 2 Orthodox congregations in the city.
The Mission of Virgin Mary Life-Giving Spring Antiochian Orthodox Church is to show love in Jesus Christ by serving the spiritual needs of Orthodox Christians in Bakersfield / Kern County, CA with divine services in Arabic, English, and Spanish.
6655 Ming Ave, Bakersfield, CA, 93309-3491Phone: (661) 381-7544 · Website: https://virginmarybakersfield.org/
Virgin Mary Life-Giving Spring Antiochian Orthodox Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 201 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across California — 2,336 across the United States on The Church Map.
Orthodoxy has carried the worship of the ancient church essentially unbroken since the first centuries, and it has never let the rest of us settle for a gospel that only forgives — it insists God intends to make his people like himself. Its liturgy, its icons, and its theology of the Trinity are wells the whole church keeps returning to.
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Upcoming events at Virgin Mary Life-Giving Spring Antiochian Orthodox Church
- Sun, Sep 20 · 10 AM: Orthros/Matins
- Sun, Sep 20 · 11 AM: Divine Liturgy followed by church school and fellowship
- Tue, Sep 22 · 6:30 PM: Catechumenate class
- Wed, Sep 23 · 6:30 PM: The Paraklesis to The Mother of God - Followed by Q&A with Abouna
- Thu, Sep 24 · All day: Ss. Juvenaly and Peter
From Virgin Mary Life-Giving Spring Antiochian Orthodox Church's public calendar (https://virginmarybakersfield.org/). Times are the church's local time.
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The community around Virgin Mary Life-Giving Spring Antiochian Orthodox 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.0%
- Food Insecurity: 24.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.0%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.2–13.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
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- Fellowship Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Discovery Church — 1.2 mi away
- All Nations Church Bakersfield — 1.2 mi away
- Victory Outreach Bakersfield Campus — 1.2 mi away
- Higher Ground Church — 1.2 mi away
- Calvary Chapel Bakersfield — 1.3 mi away
- Calvary Chapel Fellowship — 1.3 mi away
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- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 4.8 mi away
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