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Linda Vista United Methodist Church |
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Mission Purpose of the LVUMC |
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We invite you to join us at the Linda Vista United Methodist Church!
We are a fellowship of people who believe that God loves us!
God has demonstrated that love by creating this world, by sending Jesus Christ to live and die.
And be raised again for us, and by staying ever close and approachable by the Holy Spirit.
Following Jesus' example, we give strength to and draw strength from one another!
We are a multi-cultural church, actively caring for each for each other and for all people.
We trust in God, both in our struggles and in our triumphs.
And are working together to demonstrate our concerns for all the people.
And especially for the young families in our community and people of diverse cultural roots! |
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The church was organized in September, 1943, by C.I. Andrews,
who posed as a Boy Scout leader to see if there were enough people interested in a Methodist Church to try to organize one.
The first service was held January 9, 1944 in the Linda Vista Community Building (which is now the skating rink)
with 49 adults and 64 Sunday School students.
All who signed the Church register before Easter Sunday, April 9, 1944 were Charter Members.
There was 116 for the Charter service. The first site assigned to us by the U.S. Government is where
the Bayside Settlement house now stands. However Reverend Pendell refused the site.
It took some doing but we were finally successful in persuading the government to let us have the present
site. We had to move a duplex off of it to a location on Drescher Street,
where a plane crash had demolished a duplex of the same type.
We soon outgrew the Community Building. With a promise that Reverend Pendell would end services on time,
enabling people to attend the afternoon movie,
we were allowed to use the Linda Theater.
One of the high-lights of our time in the theater was the Sunday Reverend Pendell received over 100 new members,
making our church membership almost 500, with 300 of those in Church School.
The first building that was acquired was the present Social Hall. It had been a Psycho Ward,
replete with bars on the windows, from Camp Callan, (which is now the Torrey Pines Golf course).
The second addition was the office, chapel, kitchen and restroom area.
It came from the Marine Base in San Diego, where it was used as a Mess Hall.
Then came the Sanctuary, after 4 years of hard work. Reverend Pendell preached the first service in the Sanctuary
on the last Sunday of June, 1948, which the last Sunday of his assignment to Linda Vista.
All walked a plank to get into the church, as it wasn't finished.
The Church School rooms came last. They were moved here from Arizona where they had been used as a detention camp
for Japanese during World War II.
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