About Us

OUR STORY

We are a Jesus-centered community, continually transformed by Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and ascension. We aim to mature together in the way of Jesus, growing in love for God and our neighbors. 

River & Way is a network of house churches. We gather collectively on the first Sunday of each month and then scatter into House Church communities for the remaining Sundays to sit under the Apostle's teaching, pray together, fellowship with one another, and break bread.

Born out of the covid pandemic as part of the former A Jesus Church Network, River & Way carries a name full of intention and prayer. There's something special about the river running through Bakersfield—when it's full, life flourishes in the city in a unique way. As we prayed for the life that only Jesus can bring to take root and multiply here, we were repeatedly drawn to a prophetic vision of the river—a vision of God pouring out His Spirit to bring new life to Bakersfield.

We want to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did. 

River & Way is a church that loves Jesus and this city. Together, in Bakersfield, we practice the way of Jesus.

In Bakersfield as it is in Heaven. 

PASTORAL TEAM

Brandon & Liz Burch

Planting Pastors

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WHAT WE PRACTICE & BELIEVE

We hold to the historic teachings of Christian Orthodoxy as articulated in the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds. We feel most closely aligned with the recent summaries of Christian Doctrine as formulated in the Lausanne Covenant & Cape Town Commitment. You can read more about this here: