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A Calvary Chapel, housed in the former Montesano Theatre, Montesano, Washington. The association has its origins in the founding of a Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa (California) in 1965 by pastor Chuck Smith of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel with 25 people. [1] [2] [3] In 1968 they broke away from Foursquare Church. Prior to Smith ...
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.
The Vineyard has its origins in the founding of a Calvary Chapel church by Kenn Gulliksen and his wife Joanie, members of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, in 1974, in Los Angeles in the United States. [3] [4] In early 1975, thirteen groups met at the Beverly Hills Women's club.
In 1968, the Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa congregation of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (under pastor Chuck Smith) broke from the denomination and later formed an association of autonomous Charismatic Evangelical churches, today making up the Charismatic but non-Pentecostal denomination, Calvary Chapel. [14] [15] [16]
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Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, California, was one of the first evangelical charismatic churches, founded in 1965. [60] Victory Outreach International was founded in east Los Angeles in 1967. In the United Kingdom, Jesus Army , founded in 1969, is an example of the influence outside the United States. [ 61 ]
In 1931, Rev. Charles E. Fuller was the pastor at Calvary Church of Placentia. At the time of its founding, the church had 150 members. [1] According to Pastor Michael Samsvick, who became pastor in 1961, Calvary was founded by Christians who wanted a church that would "stand for and teach the whole Bible as the Word of God. [4]
There were twenty houses eventually involved [2] as Houses of Miracles throughout California: one each in Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach (Philadelphia House), Corona, Downey, Lompoc, Garlock, Long Beach, Muscoy, Oxnard, Pacific Grove, Ridgecrest, Southgate and Whittier; two houses apiece in Fontana, Riverside and Santa Ana; and one in Phoenix, AZ.