"ADVENTURES IN CHURCH BUILDING" 

1869-1900:…."the period of the pioneers"

Downey, 1869; San Bernardino, 1872; Los Angeles First, 1874; San Luis Rey (now Oceanside), 1875, Santa Ana First, 1881; Orange, 1883; Artesia, 1883; Pomona First, 1883; Santa Maria, 1884; Pasadena Central, 1884; Riverside, 1885; San Diego Central, 1886; Azusa, 1888; Hollywood (now Hollywood-Beverly), 1888; Santa Barbara, 1888; Paso Robles, 1888; Escondido, 1889; Bakersfield First, 1891; Los Angeles Central, 1891; Ontario, 1891; Los Angeles Lincoln Heights, 1892; Corona, 1892; Long Beach First, 1894; Anaheim, 1894; Burbank First, 1894; Covina, 1894; Glendora, 1895; Ventura, 1895; Whittier First, 1895; Los Angeles Broadway (now Pico-Arlington), 1896; Santa Paula, 1898; and Santa Monica First, 1899.

1900-1910: ...thirty-one churches founded, two of which no longer exist but were joined with other churches

Alhambra; Los Angeles Birch Street (now East 28th Street); Cypress Park; Highland Park; Pico Heights (now joined with Arlington Avenue to form Pico-Arlington); Los Angeles Wilshire; Los Angeles Hollenbeck Heights (building now used by a Mexican Church of Christ); Los Angeles University; Los Angeles Magnolia Avenue (united with First Church in 1935, in turn united with Wilshire Boulevard Church; El Monte; Los Angeles Figueroa Boulevard (changed to Crenshaw Boulevard); Fullerton First; Glendale Central; Hemet; Holtville; Japanese in Los Angeles; Monrovia; Ocean Park; Arlington; San Luis Obispo; South Pasadena; West Los Angeles; Los Angeles Alvarado; Elsinore; Huntington Beach; Redlands First; Rialto.

1910-1920: ...fifteen churches were begun;...growth affected by times of depression and the first World War

Beaumont; Brawley; Brea; Los Angeles Community (later disbanded to form Eastmont and Bella Vista churches); Long Beach East Side; El Centro; Inglewood First; Los Angeles South Park (whose members formed nucleus of McCarty Memorial Church, Los Angeles); Pasadena Bethany; East San Diego; San Dimas; Van Nuys; Los Angeles Vermont Square; La Habra; Los Angeles Western Avenue.
1920-1930: years of rapid growth and expansion in a time of financial prosperity
Baldwin Park; Bellflower; Coachella; Eagle Rock; Gloria Gardens (later Hollydale); Los Angeles Hooper Avenue (later known as Cosmopolitan); Huntington Park; Los Angeles Monroe Street; North Hollywood; North Long Beach; Bell: Redlands State Street; San Diego El Cerritos (later forming Vista La Mesa); San Pedro; Santa Ana Orange Avenue; Los Angeles South Broadway; Taft; Torrance; Victorville; Wilmington; Compton First; Culver City; Fellows; Maricopa; Los Angeles Florence Avenue; Inglewood Heights; Lawndale; Montebello; San Bernardino Central; San Fernando; Bell Gardens; Lynwood.

Los Angeles Avalon; Tujunga; Los Angeles Griffith Park; Los Angeles House of Prayer (now Eastmont); Los Angeles McCarty Memorial; Tarzana; Long Beach West Side; Los Angeles Filipino; South Santa Ana; Alvarado and Towne Avenue in Pomona.

Little Brown Church in North Hollywood; Gardena; Compton Rosewood; Glendale Rossmoyne; Hollydale; Long Beach Bixby Knolls; Los Angeles All Peoples; Los Angeles Morningside; Los Angeles View Park; Westchester; Westwood Hills; Burbank Little White Chapel; North Hollywood Victory Boulevard; Pacific Palisades; Santa Monica Sunset Park; South Gate Christian Chapel; Sun Valley; Temple City; Ontario Eastiside; Vista La Mesa; Pacific Beach; First Christian Church of Las Vegas

1950-1958: the mid century years witnessed the greatest era of church establishment and building

Arcadia; Los Angeles Eastmont; Compton West Side; Lancaster; Palo Verde Avenue Long Beach; Long Beach Lakewood; Long Beach Parkcrest; Los Angeles Gateway; Los Angeles 90th Street; Los Angeles West Adams (Japanese); Bella Vista Monterey Park; Norwalk; Hillcrest Northridge; Del Haven La Puente; Rivera; Devonshire San Fernando; West Covina; East Whittier; Woodland Hills; Fullerton Orangethorpe; Garden Grove; Barstow; Fontana; Victorville Babe of Bethlehem (Black); Chula Vista; San Diego Clairemont; Oxnard; Reseda.