CALVARY CHAPEL WESTBROOK Information

Calvary Chapel Westbrook is part of the growing numbers of Calvary Chapel Official Fellowships and is located in Bakersfield California. What began in the late 1970s, during what has been called the "Jesus Movement," and influenced by the leadership and teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith and Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, our church was birthed and began taking the uncompromising message of God's love and grace to a lost generation in our community. In the late 1980s, we changed our name from Calvary Chapel Bakersfield to Westbrook Chapel, we have since changed our name to Calvary Chapel Westbrook in coming back into affiliation with the Calvary Chapel Fellowships. We have continued to minister with much effectiveness in our city taking that same simple message of God's love and grace to a lost world. As one of the three Calvary Chapel's in our community it is our hearts' desire is to see our city of Bakersfield won for Jesus Christ by holding fast to the Calvary Chapel style of ministry which is teaching the word of God line on line and book by book through the entire Bible and faithfully reaching out to the lost with the love of God. Pastor Mike Osthimer and his wife, Lee, met and served together in the youth ministry back in the early days of Calvary Chapel Bakersfield serving as volunteers leading the high school ministry for 7 years. Mike was invited to join the staff full time at Westbrook in 1994 serving as Associate Pastor. In 2001, Mike became only the third Senior Pastor in the over 20 years of ministry that the church has enjoyed in Bakersfield. With a heart for the Word of God and reaching the lost Pastor Mike and Lee are enjoying watching the Lord honor the call upon their lives by blessing Calvary Chapel Westbrook l with a growing body of new believers as well as many mature saints who are filled with His Spirit and who have a hunger and thirst for God's Word and a love for one another and the lost. If you are looking for a church with a strong emphasis on the teaching of God's Word and how to ...