Bear Creek Community Church
Bear Creek Community Church is a Nazarene church at 1717 East Olive Avenue in Merced, CA 95340. It is one of 117 churches in Merced.
At Bear Creek, we’re all about Jesus—and the only way to get to know Jesus is to understand what the Bible says about him, which includes what he said about himself.
1717 East Olive Avenue, Merced, CA, 95340Phone: (209) 723-3707 · Website: https://www.bearcreeknaz.org/
Bear Creek Community Church is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 337 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across California — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Bear Creek Community Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 36.7%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (3.9–16.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
- Food Insecurity: 18.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Merced city is served by 56 churches — about one congregation for every 1,054 residents.
Churches near Bear Creek Community Church
- Valley Harvest Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Chapel of Merced — 0.3 mi away
- Community Of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Triumphant Believers Center — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary BC Merced — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
- Olive East Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Salvation Army Laotian Ministries — 3 mi away
- Church Of The Nazarene — 8.1 mi away in Atwater, CA
- Connecting Point Church of the Nazarene — 24.3 mi away in Denair, CA
- The Salvation Army Turlock Corps — 24.8 mi away in Turlock, CA