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Rock Church is an evangelical megachurch with five campuses located in San Diego, California, specifically in Point Loma, San Marcos, El Cajon, Chula Vista, and City Heights. They also have a sixth campus in Oahu, Hawaii. Miles McPherson, a former NFL player, has served as senior pastor since he founded the church in 2000.
Miles Gregory McPherson (born March 30, 1960) is the pastor of the Rock Church in San Diego, a motivational speaker, and a former NFL football player. History [ edit ] McPherson grew up on Long Island .
The Rock Church & World Outreach Center: San Bernardino: CA Dan Roth 18,000 [better source needed] Non-denominational: Rock Church: San Diego: CA Miles McPherson: 12,900 [citation needed] Non-denominational: Yes (4+1 online) Saddleback Church: Lake Forest: CA Andy Wood 28,000: Baptist: Yes (14 + 4 international +1 online) Sagebrush Church ...
The battalion was a volunteer unit of between 534 [4] [5] and 559 [6] [Note 1] Latter-day Saint men, led by Mormon company officers commanded by regular U.S. Army officers. During its service, the battalion made a grueling march of nearly 1,950 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Diego, California .
Coordinates: 32.7383°N 117.2140°W. Liberty Station is a mixed-use development in San Diego, California, on the site of the former Naval Training Center San Diego. [1] It is located in the Point Loma community of San Diego. It has a waterfront location, on a boat channel off of San Diego Bay, just west of the San Diego Airport and a few miles ...
Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997. Commonly designated a cult, it was founded in 1974 and led by Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985) and Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997), known within the movement as Ti and Do, respectively. Nettles and Applewhite first met in ...
Following a stint as an itinerant preacher in the late 1970s, Lea was invited to pastor Church on the Rock in 1980 with 12 people in Rockwall, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Within 5 years, the congregation had increased to over 5,000. In 1986, Lea began to travel again, holding what he called "Prayer Clinics" and later, "Prayer Rallies" or "Prayer ...
San Diego officially became part of the U.S. in 1848, and the town was named the county seat of San Diego County when California was granted statehood in 1850. It remained a very small town for several decades, but grew rapidly after 1880 due to development and the establishment of multiple military facilities.