WHERE TO WORSHIP

?EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a partial list of places to worship in Laguna Beach. If you would like to list your church, temple or synagogue, send us your listing via fax to 494-8979 or e-mail to [email protected]. Please include the name of the place of worship, the address, phone number, service times, and pastor or rabbi.

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CALVARY LAGUNA

There is a 6:30 a.m. service Saturday, at Main Beach.

Men’s Prayer 6:30 a.m. Saturdays at Laguna Main Beach.

The Edge, a Bible study for all ages, meets at 6:30 p.m. Mondays at the Coffee Pub, 384 Forest Ave. For information, call (949) 679-1000 or www.CalvaryLaguna.com.

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CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING

(949) 715-0294 or www.lagunabeach-cpl.org

Armchair Ministries meets in parishioners’ homes.

The Rev. Diane Wolcott Watson, senior minister.

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CHURCH BY THE SEA

An Evangelical Free Church

468 Legion St.

(949) 494-6191

www.lagunachurchbythe sea.org

Sunday services are at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

There is Sunday school for infants through junior high.

High school youth group meets Tuesday evenings and junior high youth group meets Wednesday evenings.

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM

284 Forest Ave.

(949) 494-4503

Open daily except Sundays and major holidays.

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HARE KRISHNA CULTURAL CENTER

285 Legion St.

(949) 494-7029

Public service is at 5 p.m. Sunday.

Tukaram Garvey, director

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LAGUNA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

415 Forest Ave.

(949) 494-7555; www.lagunapreschurch.org

Sunday services at 8:30 and 10 a.m. There is a nursery, toddler care and Sunday school.

Jerry Tankersley, Steven Sweet, Kathy Sizer, the Rev. Jim McCluskey, ministers.

Pastor’s Bible studies at 9:15 a.m. Tuesdays in Hills Hall and 7 a.m. Wednesdays in the parlor.

Note: Services are being held in Fellowship Hall while the church is undergoing major retrofitting and refurbishing for earthquake safety and restoration. Fellowship Hall is on Second Street, between Forest Avenue and Mermaid Streets. All are invited.

?Sunday: Rev. Fahed Abu Akel, a Palestinian Christian born in Galilee, will preach at 8:30 and 10 a.m. services.

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PROJECT LAGUNA PREACH

Project Laguna Preach leads a Bible study on Main Beach boardwalk every Sunday at 4:30 p.m.

(949) 364-0635

Website: groups.myspace.com/project lagunapreach

Leader of teaching: Jared Personius

Leader of Worship: Travis Wheeland

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ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA

990 Temple Terrace Drive

Laguna Beach

(949) 494-9701

Service times are 8 a.m. Monday through Friday; 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Saturday; 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 11 a.m.; 1:30 p.m. (in Spanish) and 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Confessions, 4 to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Pastor: the Rev. Eamon O’Gorman

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ST. FRANCIS BY-THE-SEA

430 Park Ave.

Laguna Beach

(949) 497-4678

Services are at 9 a.m. Sunday

Pastor: Archbishop Simon Talarczyk

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ST. MARY’S EPISCOPAL

428 Park Ave.

(949) 494-3542

www.stmaryslaguna beach.org

Sunday Services: 8 a.m. Said Service: 10 a.m. Choral Eucharist, Sunday school; child care available at 10 a.m.

Healing Service: 10 a.m. Tuesday

Centering Prayer: 11:45 a.m. Wednesday

Taize Service: 7 p.m., third Monday of each month

The parish office is open 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday

Rector: The Rev. Elizabeth Rechter

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ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN

1190 Morningside Drive

Laguna Beach

(949) 494-7998; St_PaulsLutheran [email protected]

Meetings to be held quarterly, call for dates and times.

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THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

685 Park Ave. at Manzanita, across from Laguna Beach High School.

Laguna Beach

(949) 494-6095

Services are from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Wednesdays for teens.

Bishop Christopher Wilson

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UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP

429 Cypress Drive

Laguna Beach

(949) 497-4568

Services are 10:30 a.m. Sunday. A children’s religious education program is provided. Coffee and conversation follow services.

?Sunday: “A Chalice by the Sea, Celebrating the Laguna Fellowship’s 60th Birthday.” Today Rev. Chris Schriner, a former minister of UUFLB, will reflect on our congregation’s past, present, and future. Rev. Schriner served the Fellowship from 1987 to 2000, and is currently Minister of Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation.

He has also worked as a psychotherapist and a writer. He will retire from parish ministry at the end of August, to resume his writing career. Service Leader: Heather Mutz.

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UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

21632 Wesley Drive

Laguna Beach

(949) 499-3088

Sunday service at 9:45 a.m. Child care and elementary Sunday school available.

The youth group gathers on Sundays from 5 to 7:30 p.m. with snack supper, fun and fellowship.

Pastors: Doug and Cindy Williams.