about us

Welcome to Anaheim First Presbyterian Church!

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As a community for the community, we seek to be a safe harbor that offers acceptance and welcome to all people in the heart of downtown Anaheim. We don’t just talk about welcoming others; we actually make room for those who need and want to be part of a spiritual community in Anaheim. We find joy in our diversity and are a community where seniors and children laugh together and the unhoused among us are known by name.

 

We seek to live the greatest commandments to love God and love our neighbor. This commitment was set in our congregation’s DNA when in the 1880s our church reflected the diversity of Anaheim by offering Sunday School in English, German, Spanish and Chinese. At pivotal moments we choose to stand with those who are marginalized or oppressed. Whether by joining in a march for racial justice in Selma, AL, offering donuts and coffee to Japanese neighbors as they waited to board trains to internment camps, standing against the KKK, or flying a “rainbow flag” to show our solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community, we find ourselves reaching out and standing with our excluded neighbor.

 

Another way we love and glorify God is through artistic expression. Our choir, made up of faithful volunteers and paid interns, provide inspirational and high-quality choral music each Sunday. We also embrace other forms of artistic expression including a rich history of community and sacred theater.

 

We gratefully receive and offer God’s grace, recognizing

 that we are not entitled to our blessings, but that they come to us as gifts from God. We humbly acknowledge that God doesn’t belong to us. We belong to God. And so, we commit ourselves to continue to shine the light of God through faith and service from the heart of Anaheim.