History of Coast Christian Fellowship
In 1920, Calvary Church of the Coastlands was founded in Inglewood, California. This church belonged to the Assemblies of God denomination. The passion of the leadership was to send missionaries to the remotest parts of the globe.
While these events were occurring at Calvary Church of the Coastlands, with Wilber Wacker as the senior pastor, God was simultaneously moving in the hearts of three other churches.
Pastor Barry Felis started Hope Chapel Fellowship in Torrance. God then gave Pastor Barry a vision to pass the church leadership to his son, Shadd Felis. Soon after this transfer of leadership occurred, God called Pastor Barry to another church called Torrance Christian Fellowship.
Torrance Christian Fellowship (TCF) was birthed by Pastor Stan Komae in 1996. Pastor Komae's vision was to develop a praying church within the South Bay and to unite the pastors within the Torrance area.
Pastor Stan became severely ill. In September of 1998, Stan Komae went into a coma. In April, 1999, Pastor Stan went home to be with the Lord he had so faithfully served. After Pastor Stan's death, Pastor Barry Felis was the interim pastor for three years.
In the spring of 2000, Guy Takashima, an associate pastor at Hope Chapel, Hermosa Beach, began to meet with a core group of people in his house to plant a church.
Pastor Barry received a vision from the Lord of several churches merging, and had heard that Pastor Guy was looking for a location to church plant. Pastor Barry called Pastor Zac of Hope Chapel and after numerous meetings, the Hope Chapel church plant merged with the TCF group on June 2, 2002.
Shortly after the merger, Pastor Shadd approached Pastor Guy and proposed a merger with his church, Hope Chapel Fellowship. Again, after several meetings with all the principals involved, Hope Chapel Fellowship merged with the new TCF body. This was the third of four merges.
Pastor Wacker contacted pastor Guy and asked him if he would be interested in taking over the ministry at Calvary Church of the Coastlands. To expedite the story, the merger was approved, and one of the first orders of business was to create a new name. The name that was selected was Coast Christian Fellowship.
Coast Christian Fellowship strives to continue the rich legacy of maintaining its "passion for Jesus, and compassion for the world."