Reformed Presbyterian Church

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Reformed Presbyterian Church in College Area, San Diego, meets at 3495 College Avenue, five minutes south of the SDSU campus and just north of the Highway 94 interchange. The congregation incorporated in California on February 26, 1959, and belongs to the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, a denomination committed to the inerrancy of Scripture and the Westminster Standards as its confessional foundation. College students and young adults from SDSU form part of the regular Sunday attendance, drawn by the campus's proximity and the RPCNA's emphasis on expository preaching and psalm-singing as acts of corporate worship. Pastor Mark England leads worship and preaching, and the church publishes its full sermon archive through SermonAudio with live webcasting available by phone at access code 62078 for members who cannot attend in person. The RPCNA maintains distinctive worship practices, including exclusive psalmody — singing only the 150 Psalms of the Bible without instrumental accompaniment — a tradition the denomination has upheld since its Covenanter origins in seventeenth-century Scotland. The church serves a multigenerational membership spanning families with young children through retired couples, and small-group gatherings extend into weeknight fellowship at community spaces along the El Cajon Boulevard corridor, where Living Room Coffeehouse hosts study groups from churches across the neighborhood. The College Avenue location places the congregation in the 92115 ZIP, within the residential corridor running between SDSU and the Rolando neighborhood to the south. The sanctuary at 3495 College Avenue includes wheelchair-accessible entrance, parking, and restroom facilities, meeting ADA assembly-use requirements for the site.