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The Los Angeles Crusade of 1949 was the first great evangelistic campaign of Billy Graham. It was organized by the Christian group Christ for Greater Los Angeles. [ 1 ] The campaign was scheduled for three weeks, but it was extended to eight weeks. [ 2 ]
Reports were published throughout the U.S. and the world of the strange happenings in Los Angeles. [19] LA Times article criticizing the behavior of the revivalists at Azusa Street. Christians from many traditions were critical, saying the movement was hyper-emotional, misused Scripture and lost focus on Christ by overemphasizing the Holy ...
Grace Community Church is a non-denominational, evangelical megachurch founded in 1956 and located in Sun Valley, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. Speaker and radio evangelist John MacArthur is the senior pastor of Grace Community Church. As of 2008, the average weekly attendance was 8,258. [1]
In 1952, the Los Angeles Times described the origins of the Pisgah Home movement: "He (Yoakum) walked the back streets, among the down-and-outers, calling on them to give themselves to Christ . One by one at first, and then in droves, society's outcasts heeded and followed the fervent doctor with the white hair and trimly clipped white beard.
In 1969, after Elder Church's death, Charles E. Blake took over as the pastor of West Angeles. In 1981, it opened a new building at 3045 Crenshaw Boulevard, including a 1,000-seat auditorium. In 1999, it dedicated a new building including a 5,000-seat auditorium at 3600 Crenshaw Boulevard. [2]
Usher Alvin Bernard extends the collection purse to Helen Lechner at the Third Church of Christ, Scientist of Los Angeles. Lechner lives in the South Bay and is joined by her friend, Willis Citizen.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the church was "built and furnished at a cost of $250,000 on a $30,000 site." [5] Dr. McCarty imported many of the interior features from Czechoslovakia. The Times called the church, designed by Thomas P. Barber and Paul Kingsbury, "one of the finest examples of pure Gothic architecture in America."
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