Calabasas CA
9-07-2025 12:02am

Altadena Fire Update for Houses of Worship

Altadena

  • Altadena Baptist Church - 791 E Calaveras St Facebook ABC
    • 1934 - For more than nine decades, we've been helping spread God's good news here in our hometown and throughout the world, and we pray that God will continue to use our congregation.
    • >50% damage
    • Public fundraiser status
    • August 31st update: Our new temporary home announced Starting Sunday, September 7, our service time and service location will change: we will now be meeting back in Altadena! Our new (temporary) Sunday service home will be at 1:00pm, downstairs at Christian Science Altadena
    • August 29th update: "The building is gone, but we're coming back. One more time....for now. ...This Sunday (8/31) we'll be back at the corner of Calaveras and El Molino. Church on the lawn at 11am, followed by lunch and art projects and community. Come and join us!"
    • August 24th update: "This morning we said goodbye to our temporary gathering place, post-fire. We can't express how grateful we are to Highlands Church - La Crescenta, CA for opening their doors to us almost immediately after our building burned down in January.
    • June 27th update: As of yesterday afternoon, all clearing that Army Corps will do has been completed. Thank you all for your prayers as we journey together.I
    • June 18th update: Cleanup has finally begun
  • Altadena Church of Christ - 2631 Fair Oaks Ave, Altadena, CA 91001-5068
    • 1940 - Altadena Community Church was founded in 1940
    • >50% damage
    • Website "This site is currently unavailable." No social media accounts active
    • Public fundraiser status
  • Altadena Community Church - 943 E. Altadena Drive Facebook ACC
    • 1940 - " For over 80 years, the church has acted on two great core values of peace and acceptance"
    • >50% damage
    • Public fundraiser status Fundraiser by Kevin Yang : Support Altadena Community Church After the Eaton Fire $8,213 raised
    • "On Sunday, Jan. 5, the Rev. Paul Tellström announced his retirement from the pulpit at Altadena Community Church. The 69-year-old pastor is in the throes of Parkinson’s disease. He is getting slower. His physical strength is fading. Two days after Tellström announced he would soon be leaving — starting a transition that, no matter how expected, is difficult for any congregation — the church burned to the ground." They lost their Altadena church in the Eaton fire. They still gathered to worship - Los Angeles Times
    • February 3rd - Members of the congregation visit the ruins after church.
  • Altadena United Methodist Church - 349 W Altadena Dr Facebook UMC
    • 1886
    • >50% damage
    • Public fundraiser status Fundraiser by Altadena UMC : Eaton Fire Disaster Relief for AUMC $20,624 raised. If you would like to make a donation that is received directly to Altadena UMC, you may do so via CashApp:
    • August 31st "Altadena UMC Gives A Big SHOUT OUT to our Brothers and Sisters at Montebello Plymouth Congregational Church, led by Pastor Mitchell! They donated several beautiful stoles to Pastor Wilson, who lost his stoles in the Eaton Canyon Fire. God gives beauty for ashes"
    • August 7th "AUMC Bible Study Resumes Next Thursday!"
    • May 4th - "THANK YOU Bishop Dottie, Pastor Lee, & the Korean UMC Cal-PAC Caucus for your presence, prayers, support! We were blessed to worship with you all today at Altadena UMC!"
    • April 21st - Despite losing church in Eaton Fire, Altadena United Methodist Church hosts Easter festivities Scott UMC in Pasadena, Ca

One of the more complex situations is the property owned by the congregation of the Pasadena Church of Christ Kinneloa Congregation

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http://pasadenadisciples.org
Last Sale Date 07/31/1968

Year Built:1970
10438 sq ft

Jurisdiction:City of Pasadena,Unincorporated - Kinneloa Mesa

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Pasadena Church of Christ Kinneloa Congregation - 1727 Kinneloa Canyon Rd, Pasadena, CA 91107 - Facebook

PASADENA CHURCH OF CHRIST is a company based in 1727 KINNELOA CANYON RD, United States, which employs 4 people. The company started trading on 11 April 1941.

If you'd like to help, you can email this address: pasadena.coc@icloud.com. Thank you for your prayers.
January 8th: "Eon Walk, the church’s chief financial officer, was watching the news when she saw a fire had started in the canyon......She said the building, which was several decades old, was rented out to two other churches, Expressions Church and the Church of God in Christ. For now, Walk said, church members are just asking for prayers." California church burns in wildfire outbreak - The Christian Chronicle

California Congregations Vow to Help Neighbors As Buildings Lost To Fires

Tragically one of the neighbors of the Church has taken them to Court, over the loss of the parking access the school leased from the Church. High Point Academy, Inc., A California Nonprofit Corporation VS Pasadena Church of Christ, A California Nonprofit Corporation

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