Established as the Portuguese-language ministry of one of Ocean Beach’s oldest church properties, the Brazilian Church gathers each Sunday at 4790 Santa Monica Avenue for a Portuguese-medium service that follows the morning English liturgies on the same campus. The congregation shares facilities and pastoral oversight with OB One Church — the historic First Baptist of Ocean Beach property purchased on this corner in 1914 — under a pastor born in Brazil who immigrated to the United States in 1993 and was ordained at the parent congregation in 2005. Services run entirely in Brazilian Portuguese with the same teaching arc as the campus’s English-language gatherings, providing an immigrant-faith home for the Brazilian and Lusophone community across the wider San Diego region. Brazilian Church families regularly arrive earlier in the morning so children can attend the campus’s English-language children’s program while parents stay for the Portuguese worship that follows. Within Ocean Beach’s broader non-denominational ecosystem the congregation sits alongside smaller plants such as Submerge Church on Newport Avenue, but distinguishes itself as the only Sunday-morning Portuguese-language Christian service in the 92107 ZIP. The most ambitious undertaking is the periodic short-term missions program, in which teams from this Santa Monica Avenue corner travel to partner churches across Brazil and return to anchor a single weekly Portuguese worship gathering for the regional Brazilian diaspora.