Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church

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Known across the Peninsula as the "Red Brick Church" for its 1990 New England-style Family Life Center facade, Point Loma Community Presbyterian was incorporated in June 1937 with 133 charter members under the Presbytery of Los Angeles, holding its first services in October 1938 in a California mission-style chapel near Chatsworth and Voltaire. An on-site licensed early-childhood program — Red Brick Preschool — operates from the same Chatsworth Boulevard campus, sharing classroom space that converts between Sunday-school and weekday-preschool uses across the academic year. Three Sunday worship gatherings cover a traditional service in the 1954 sanctuary, an online blended service, and a contemporary chapel service, allowing the same teaching content to reach members across worship-style preferences. Now under the Presbytery of San Diego within PCUSA, the church follows the denomination’s Reformed confessional standards and Book of Order while maintaining a community-oriented charter that dates back to the 1936 interdenominational agreement that founded it. The Chatsworth Adult Center hosts senior-focused classes, crafts, field trips, and weekday fellowship across the same parish hall used for AA chapter meetings and youth-scout chartering. The most architecturally significant undertaking is the campus’s traditional New England-style build — the 1954 sanctuary plus the 1990 Family Life Center together creating the brick-clad complex that gave the parish its enduring "Red Brick Church" nickname and that anchors the corner of Chatsworth, Udall, and Poinsettia with its distinctive plaza.