Rooted in a 1907 congregation on the Point Loma, San Diego peninsula — one of the earliest Church of the Nazarene bodies in California — San Diego First Church of the Nazarene worships at 3901 Lomaland Drive after a 1986 merger consolidated two fellowships onto the current campus. Brown Chapel, shared with Point Loma Nazarene University, seats the congregation for its primary worship gathering, giving a local parish direct access to a university-grade pipe organ and acoustic hall designed for choral performance. The Wesleyan-holiness theological tradition that defines the denomination emphasizes both personal spiritual formation and active social compassion, a dual focus the church channels into international missions including the Healing Waters clean-water project in the Dominican Republic. Intergenerational Sunday school classes run concurrent with the main service, segmenting instruction from early childhood through adult Bible study in dedicated buildings across the Lomaland campus. The church's location places it within the same Cabrillo-area stewardship corridor supported by Cabrillo National Monument Foundation, linking spiritual community to the natural-landscape preservation that defines the southern tip of the peninsula. Multi-week mission-trip deployments to Central America represent the congregation's highest-commitment outreach, with teams providing construction labor, medical support, and vocational training in partner communities.