Would-be churchgoers said long lines and poor seating at the smaller auditorium discouraged them from attending Sunday services, Price said. And if I can get 10,100 people into one service, that’s more than we’re doing now.” “The purpose of the building is to have one service. “Multiple services are horrendous,” Price said. While the dome was being built, Price has led three services each Sunday morning in a renovated auditorium on the old campus, averaging a total of 4,500 worshipers. A “sound cloud” device is suspended from the roof to absorb exterior noise, especially from airplanes approaching Los Angeles International Airport.Ĭrenshaw Christian Center bought the Pepperdine site in 1981, when the then-11,000-member congregation was outgrowing its Inglewood church. The center of the dome is about 75 feet high. Blue, theater-style seats and carpeting fan out in a gentle upward slope from the central pulpit area. When empty, the floor of the 320-foot-wide FaithDome resembles a huge, shallow pool. Vaughan, a “mega-church” researcher at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo. The FaithDome’s 10,145 seats tops the nation’s previously most-spacious churches-the 10,000-seat Assembly of God facilities in Lakeland, Fla., and Birmingham, Ala., according to John N. ![]() Only a couple of other Southern California churches seat 4,000. As striking as that glass church is, however, the Crystal Cathedral seats only 3,000 people. The white aluminum dome-located at the west end of the 28-acre church complex and visible from the Harbor Freeway-will likely join Garden Grove’s Crystal Cathedral, pastored by the Rev. Said church member Barbara Crump: “The dome is not just a place for show it’s to change people’s lives.” The changes in the cities are going to happen with what people do, not by me getting involved,” he said. I encourage my people to vote we’re very strong on that. ![]() “The Bible tells us to pray and honor those who are in authority. Price says he simply tries to do what God calls on him to do. I don’t think we can isolate ourselves spiritually. However, Johnson stressed that churches “have to be actively involved in correcting the ills of our society. Johnson, a Compton pastor who co-chairs the South Central Organizing Committee, said: “I have not heard one fellow pastor speak critically or positively of Fred Price.” Price’s low profile apparently has spared him criticism over that much money going into property and buildings rather than social programs, which are limited at the church to a day-care facility and a weekly drug and alcohol recovery program. Sunday, there will be only $2 million left to pay on the $9-million building. When Price leads churchgoers into the FaithDome at 9:30 a.m.
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