San Diego Hmong Church

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San Diego Hmong Church in College Area, San Diego, is a Christian and Missionary Alliance congregation at 4434 Dawson Avenue, serving the Hmong community from a building the membership purchased in June 1993. Chong Yang Heu founded the church in November 1976 with approximately nine families and 40 members, initially gathering at First Alliance Church before relocating to the Dawson Avenue property in the 92115 ZIP. The congregation's cultural programming serves as a gathering point for Hmong families across College Area and Rolando, and community events extend into Life Community Center on El Cajon Boulevard for larger cultural celebrations and fellowship meals. By July 1984, membership had expanded to 40 families and 200 members, and the church has since functioned as a primary cultural and spiritual anchor for San Diego's Hmong diaspora. Sunday fellowship begins at nine in the morning with a worship service following from ten to eleven-thirty, incorporating Hmong-language hymns drawn from the Phau Nkauj songbook alongside English-language elements. Youth ministry operates as a distinct arm of the church, connecting second- and third-generation Hmong-American young adults to both their heritage language and the C&MA denomination's theological framework. The church sits two blocks south of El Cajon Boulevard near SDSU, and pastoral care extends to counseling referrals through the neighborhood's behavioral-health network, where providers such as Alter Behavioral Health serve multilingual clients from the same College Area catchment. The Dawson Avenue campus includes wheelchair-accessible entrance, parking, and restroom facilities, and the congregation holds EIN 95-3645875 as a registered 501(c)(3) under the C&MA's Hmong District.