First Presbyterian church class on the evangelical movement in California from Father Serra to the Jesus people.

1. From Junipero Serra to the
Jesus People:
Southern California
in the History of Christianity

2. February 15:
California as a
Mission Field on the Far Side
of the World

3. Feb. 22:
Mission San Luis Rey
and the Luiseño Indians

4. Occidental College in 1910
March 1
Progressive Protestants:
Christian Liberal Arts in
Southern California

5. Aimee Semple McPherson ,
Angelus Temple and Life Pacific College , founded as
Evangelistic and Missionary Training Institute
March 8:
Southern California’s Leadership in
Holiness and Pentecostal Movements

6. March 15:
Progressive Protestants:
The Ethnic Mission at Home

7. March 22:
Plain-Folk
Protestantism:
Orange County,
Pepperdine,
and
Ronald Reagan

8. March 29:
The Jesus
People
Movement
In
Southern
California

9. Samuel H. Willey (b. 1821)
-Grad Dartmouth in 1845
-Ordained Presbyterian
- American Home Missionary Society,
Willey, at age 27, was appointed to
Monterey, California
- Chaplain at the 1849 Constitutional
Convention of the State of California.
- Deep interest in education, especially for
girls, Indians, and Mexicans
- Moves to Benecia and helps found Young
Ladies Seminary that is now Mills College.
- In San Francisco helps found Hamlin
School for girls.
- 1853, in Oakland, he and the Rev. Henry
Durant (a Congregationalist minister)
founded the Contra Costa Academy. In
1855 the Academy became the College of
California and in 1868 the College become
University of California.
-The college town was named Berkeley.

10. Westward the course of empire takes its way.
Time’s noblest offspring would be the last.
-Bishop George Berkeley
Congregationalist/Presbyterian College becomes University of California in 1868

11. Southern California as
spiritually and physically healthy

12. Founded by Methodists Founded by Presbyterians
1870s-1880s Booming Growth:
Progressivism in Southern California

13. Bible Institute of
Los Angeles
Founded 1908
Funded by Lyman
Stewart, co-owner
of Union Oil
Company of
California

14. Phineas Bresee : (1838 – 1915)
-1883 comes to LA as
Methodist minister
-He was trustee of University of
Southern California.
-Social Gospel
-Founder of Pasadena College in 1902
and Church of the Nazarene
Methodist Reform and Social Gospel Founding of
USC, PLNU and Church of the Nazarene
Joseph Pomeroy Widney (1841 – 1938)
-Followed Brothers to “Garden of Eden” in Calif
-With brother he founded USC and became its
2nd president
-A founder with Bresee of PLNU (1902) and
then the Church of the Nazarene (1907).
-Wrote Race Life of the Aryan Peoples (1907)
best-selling, two volume work,
about history of Aryans
and responsibility to world uplift, a type
of “White Man’s Burden,”

15. On each of the four facades was an inscription to remind the colony of its ideals. On the West:
“Great Nature, refuge of the weary heart and only balm of breast that have been bruised.” On
the North: “For lasting happiness, we turn our eyes to one alone, and she surround you now,
Mother Nature.” The South: “Let us keep our faces to the sunshine, and we will not see the
shadows.” And most practically to the East: “The most valuable of all arts will be that of
deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil.”
Atascadero
Women’s
Colony
(near San Luis Obispo)

16. Palos Verdes Estates: Plan for a Mediterranean Ideal Town by founder of Atascadero
Hire a great architect and planner (Myron Hunt and Olmstead) and Environment will
create better people (nature/nurture).

17. The Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, Point Loma
Envisioned in 1896 by Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley (1847-1929)
- without distinctions of race, creed, sex, caste, or color,
- study of Aryan and other Eastern literature, religions, and sciences
- investigate the hidden mysteries of Nature and psychical powers

18. Spaulding House (Meras Hall, PLNU)
Octagon House
Natural and Spiritual Powers of a House

20. Bible Study at the Asberry home on 216 North
Bonnie Brae Street. Growing church purchased
the old African American Methodist Church on
Asuza Street.

21. Aimee Semple McPherson ,
Angelus Temple and Life Pacific College , founded as
Evangelistic and Missionary Training Institute
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
Four-fold Ministry of Christ:
Savior, Baptizer with Holy Spirit, Healer, Soon-coming King
Founded in 1923 in Los Angeles
Over 8 million members and growing in apx. 150 countries

22. Faith Healing 1921 at Spreckles Organ Pavilion: Woman paralyzed since childhood is healed