Meet The Pastor
Pastor Mel Venegas
I pastor Mel Venegas, along with the help of my lovely wife, Yvonne, and many others have been faithfully teaching and preaching the Word of God to all who would come and listen. We started in the city of Downtown Los Angeles, on the corner of “HOPE” and 12th street (hence the name). From Downtown, to skid row, up to Eagle Rock, and now coming to South Pasadena.
The WarMemorialBuilding was built in 1921, as a way to commemorate veterans, specifically of WWI. Ironically, this building’s name, “War”, reminds me, that we are “at war” on a spiritual level, against drugs, drinking, loneliness, and a host of other social ailments. Jesus said , “24 “whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock”. Join me as we begin to build up our spiritual house upon an unshakable foundation through the systematic teaching of the Word of God.