OUR STORY
Del Rey Church began over 50 years ago as a part of a church plant.
On October 4, 1958 a group of about 100 Christians from a church in downtown Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Evangelical Free Church, began meeting to discuss a new church plant. This group sensed God’s leading to begin a new church in Playa del Rey, California.
At that time, Playa del Rey and its neighboring towns like Westchester were slowly developing into thriving neighborhoods. Many people were relocating from the downtown to these new neighborhoods for new opportunities for their families.
This group purchased the land we stand on today and held their first worship service on August 30, 1959.
By 1963, the church had grown to 172 people in weekly attendance. In the 1970’s, the church seemed to explode in population with over 400 weekly in attendance. In the 80’s and 90’s, the church attendance had dropped below 100 people. Entering into the new millennium, the church was still hanging on with open doors, believing that God desires to be worshipped in this place.
At the turn of 2010 we began to see His Spirit moving in our community.
With new leadership and new vision for the church, we began to experience growth and had to double our Sunday services to accommodate the growth on Sunday worship gatherings. Genuine growth is not determined by the head count on Sunday mornings and thankfully we are seeing both an increase in numbers as well as changed lives by the power of the gospel.
Currently, we are witnessing what appears to be the start of a great work God is doing in the hearts of the people in this church and community. We hope that you will be moved to sacrificially join the movement of the gospel in this place as we seek to know God and to make Him known in this city and beyond. One day in the future, Christ Jesus has promised to return and until then the Del Rey Church will be here doing His work.