Affiliated with the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod since its 1934 founding, Bethany Lutheran began with a December service in a borrowed Ocean Beach clubhouse and dedicated its first permanent sanctuary in April 1936 on a parcel donated by an early Ocean Beach family. The current mid-century sanctuary at the northeast corner of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard and Cape May Avenue replaced the 1936 structure following a June 1960 groundbreaking, and the building now hosts an early Sunday Anglican liturgy for Holy Trinity Anglican Church before the LCMS congregation gathers. A back-of-sanctuary nursery with a full viewing window keeps infants and toddlers connected to the LCMS liturgy without disrupting worshipers. Lent fish-fry suppers, confirmation classes following Luther’s Small Catechism, and a Lutheran Sunday school complete the parish program. As one of two Lutheran congregations rooted in coastal Point Loma alongside St. Peter’s by the Sea Lutheran Church, Bethany maintains the LCMS confessional tradition at this corner of 92107 across denominational lines from its ELCA neighbor up the Peninsula. The most architecturally significant element on the property is the 1960 sanctuary itself — a mid-century steel-and-stucco build whose cornerstone was laid that October and whose congregation traces an unbroken parish line back to the original 1934 charter on the same Sunset Cliffs corner.