Part of our identity is the excellent preaching, the key ingredient in the growth of our church. It has stood for excellence and inspiration on many fronts.įour key characteristics set Vallejo Drive Church apart in our community. The Vallejo Drive Church has been a stalwart institution The church has existed on the current site for 55 years.Ī lot of hi story has past and many wonderful people have come and gone during that time.
In 1964, the church program-bulletin bore for the first time the name-Vallejo Drive Seventh-day Adventist Church. The new church was dedicated in November, 1967. Under the inspired leadership of Pastors Campbell, Escobar and Pelt, the congregation found themselves 10 years and $1 million later in an adequate, debt-free, new church home. In 1928 with generous support from the Sanitarium, the Conference organizations, and the “40 Cents a Week” from the members, an attractive 600 seat sanctuary was erected at a cost of $32,000.Īnother significant history fact is that on the brink of the Great Depression, the members were able to cap it all off with a fine refurbished pipe organ for $4,500.īetween the years of 1957-1967 the membership grew and church seating became a weekly crisis. Vallejo Drive Church was originally organized as the Glendale Sanitarium Seventh-day Adventist Church into the Southern California Conference on Jwith 80 members. Below are just a few notes from our church’s history. The Vallejo Drive Church has been part of the community for almost ninety years, and, in addition to providing a vibrant faith community for generations of families, has been integrally involved with health, education and community ministry in Glendale.
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