First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Delano, CA 93215. It is one of 43 churches in Delano.
Delano, CA, 93215First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 25,985 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.
Find First United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
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Latest from First UMC Bakersfield's YouTube channel: 09/13/2026 Exodus - The Passover Escape (all videos).
The community around First United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 33.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.3%
- Unemployment: 14.0% (5.3–22.7%)
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.4%
- Obesity: 36.3%
- Poverty Rate: 18.5% (7.0–30.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (4.8–18.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Delano city is served by 21 churches — about one congregation for every 1,961 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.1 mi away
- World Harvest International Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Mary of the Miraculous Medal — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Kern Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Universal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Delano Baptist Temple — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- United Methodist Church of Wasco — 13.4 mi away in Wasco, CA
- Tipton United Methodist Church — 20.5 mi away in Tipton, CA
- Grand Avenue United Methodist Church — 24.2 mi away in Porterville, CA