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Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. Calvary Chapel is an international association of charismatic evangelical churches, with origins in Pentecostalism.It maintains a number of radio stations around the world and operates many local Calvary Chapel Bible College programs.
At the beginning of the Jesus movement and into the 1970s, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa was the home church of two pioneering Jesus music groups, Children of the Day and Love Song. Both had their early albums released on the Chuck Smith-created music label, Maranatha! Music. As of 2009, there are more than 1500 Calvary Chapel congregations worldwide.
In 2008, Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale and Calvary Christian Academy faced a multimillion-dollar lawsuit related to the 2004 adoption of a teenage girl through the church's 4KIDS program. The girl was sexually abused by her adoptive father. [13] [14] The case was dismissed because the abuse occurred in the family home by a family member.
Charles Ward "Chuck" Smith (June 25, 1927 – October 3, 2013) was an American pastor who founded the Calvary Chapel movement. Beginning with the 25-person Costa Mesa congregation in 1965, Smith's influence now extends to "more than 1,000 churches nationwide and hundreds more overseas", [1] some of which are among the largest churches in the United States.
Harvest Christian Fellowship was founded in 1973 by Greg Laurie, who has been the senior pastor since that time. [1]In 2009, it opened a new building, with a 5,000-seat auditorium, a gymnasium, and a High School.
In Spring of 1975, Calvary Chapel Bible School was established at the former Monte Vista Resort in the heart of Twin Peaks, California.Originally a very "short, intensive residential study program" [1] with a tape-based curriculum consisting primarily of sermons by Calvary Chapel founder Chuck Smith and different speakers, the college has now grown to offer complete Associates & Bachelor's ...
In the early 1970s Calvary Chapel was home to more than 15 musical groups [1] [2] that were representative of the Jesus movement.In 1971, Maranatha!Music was founded as a nonprofit outreach of Calvary Chapel to popularize and promote a new, folk-rock style of hymns and worship songs influenced by the Jesus people.
In 2009, Calvary of Albuquerque was listed as one of the 15 largest churches in America, with an average weekend attendance of 13,000. [7] In November 2018, CBS News listed Calvary Chapel of Albuquerque as the 22nd largest megachurch in the United States with about 16,830 weekly visitors and more than 13,000 followers on Facebook. [8]