Our vision is to be a diversely united, racially reconciling church, multiplying followers of Jesus to the ends of the earth.
We exist to create access for all people to Jesus and His Kingdom.
In Fall 2020, a small but committed group of Christ followers from diverse backgrounds, began praying and pursuing a vision to bring the church to the people. We began meeting in parks and motels where we found many hungry for God but lacking access to Jesus and His Kingdom. We are committed to being a church that is accessible, empowering, and reproducing followers of Jesus among the hard to reach in Los Angeles.
What We Believe
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God
There is one God who is the creator of all things, and He reveals himself in three persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), & God the Holy Spirit. (John 15:26)
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The Bible
The Bible is God’s Word and was the product of God-inspired writing through people who were moved by the Holy Spirit. It is accurate, authoritative and for our everyday lives. (2 Timothy 3:16)
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Jesus
Jesus is the only one who can restore us to God. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, and teachings. We believe that his death by crucifixion was payment for our sins. We believe in his bodily resurrection and that Jesus ascended to the right hand of His Father. We also believe that Jesus will return to Earth in power and glory. (John 14:6)
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Forgiveness
In order to receive forgiveness from God, we must repent and believe in Jesus — which will result in eternal life. (John 3:16)
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Salvation
We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. Salvation is a gift from God and is not earned. Anyone who calls on Jesus will be saved, and there will be life-fruit as evidence. (Ephesians 2:8)
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Baptism
Water baptism is a commandment of Jesus and is symbolic of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. (Matthew 28:19)
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Healing
There is the gift of healing for our physical bodies through prayer and being anointed with oil. (James 5:14-15)
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Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit brings us to salvation, builds our character, fills the believer, gives us boldness, and manifests in us spiritual gifts that we are to use in our daily lives and for others. (John 14:16-17)
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Church
The Church meets together and unites into one body because of the Gospel — from varied ethnic, cultural, linguistic and socio-economic groups. Together we worship, are equipped, and mature as a diversely united, blood-bought body under Jesus, which declares the richness of God in our community and into the spirit realms. (Ephesians 2:14-16)
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Afterlife
A person’s after-death destination is Heaven (and eventually the New Earth) or Hell, and is determined by their response to Jesus Christ. Heaven and Hell are literal. After Jesus’ return to rule and reign, believers will be with Him forever in the New Heaven and Earth. (Romans 3:23-24)
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Response
It is our responsibility to live a life devoted to Jesus, nourished from the Bible, with the help of the Holy Spirit. We are to defend the rights of the poor and marginalized, to speak against injustices, and to live and share the reconciling love of God and Gospel of Jesus Christ with others, from our home to the ends of the earth. (Matthew 25:35-36)
We are members of Peoples Church Network
Churches around the world today are divided by race, age, politics, economic class — you name it, the Church has found a way to be separated by it.
But this separation is not what Jesus paid for. With the high price of His blood, Jesus paid for a people from every tribe, language, and nation (Revelation 5:9). And we believe that diversely united congregations of His Church are what Jesus wants today.
He wants local churches where people from different ethnicities, generations, nationalities, and economics are diversely united as one — united by their love for each other and their mission to create access for all people to Jesus and His Kingdom.
Experience church like heaven on earth.
Meet Our Pastor
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Kurt Tuffendsam
LEAD PASTOR
Kurt and Penny Tuffendsam have been married 22 years. They have a teenage son and an adult daughter who is married. They have been involved in evangelism, church planting, and global missions since the 90’s when they both came to Christ in their late teen years. They have lived in the San Fernando Valley since 2003 and have a desire to see God’s Kingdom spread from every tribe, tongue, and nation to every tribe, tongue, and nation.
