Shepherd's Grove Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian church in Irvine, California.
Shepherd's Grove Presbyterian Church occupies the former St. Callistus Catholic church and school site in Garden Grove, where the congregation moved in 2013 after selling the Crystal Cathedral. The long, low building has a facade of tall dark glass panels between thin vertical mullions under a flat overhanging roof, with a pale rectangular tower to the right pierced by vertical openings and topped by a thin cross-like pole. A wide paved area lies in front.
Robert H. Schuller and his wife Arvella founded the Garden Grove Community Church in 1955, first holding services in space rented from the Orange Drive-In Theatre. The congregation moved to a Richard Neutra-designed sanctuary in 1961 and to Philip Johnson's glass Crystal Cathedral in 1980. After the 2010 bankruptcy, the building was sold to the Diocese of Orange, and the congregation relocated in 2013 to the former St. Callistus site in Garden Grove. It merged with Irvine Presbyterian Church in 2018.
The congregation's name comes from its 2013 move to the former St. Callistus Catholic church and school site in Garden Grove, after the Crystal Cathedral was sold to the Diocese of Orange. Services are held in the Presbyterian Church (USA) tradition, and the church still produces the Hour of Power television program begun under Robert Schuller.
The congregation meets at Irvine Presbyterian Church, 4445 Alton Parkway in Irvine, after the 2018 lease agreement approved by the Presbytery of Los Ranchos. The wide paved forecourt in front of the low glass-walled sanctuary and the pale tower gives level, step-free access from the parking area. Services began at this site on March 25, 2018.
The congregation operates a television and radio program that reaches a wide audience across multiple networks in different countries. This makes it one of the larger media producers of religious content from a single church community.
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