We call this
SoNoGo - South Park-North Park-Golden Hill & Our Mission: to see the baptized who live in SoNoGo worship in SoNoGo
San Diego
Japanese Christian Church
OMS Holiness Church of North America
San Diego Japanese
Christian Church (SDJCC) is here
to share the good news that a dynamic relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior
and Lord is the key to abundant living in today’s world. Our church was founded
as an outreach to Japanese speaking farmers in San Diego County over 80 years
ago. SDJCC now has English and Japanese speaking ministries. It’s easy to miss,
tucked away at the elbow of 19th and E streets just above Interstate 5: the
Japanese American Christian Church in Golden Hill. You’d most likely
drive past this humble place of worship on the way up Broadway without noticing
it, but if you happened to be on a stroll down E Street looking at the nice old
houses, you’d stumble upon it after the bigger homes give way to a series of
California bungalows. It’s there before E turns right into 19th. Across the
street from the church, a chain-link fence lines the sidewalk above the 5 where
the homeless set up camp on a regular basis before they are swept out and
relocated only to return again when the police shift their attention elsewhere.
Historically, the church itself is a product of a relocation of a different
sort. As my City College colleague, historian Susan Hasegawa informed me, it
was originally founded as the Japanese Holiness Church by Christian Nikkei
(immigrants and their descendents) in 1930 and located on Newton Avenue.
Sponsored by the Oriental Mission Society, the church focused its efforts on
outreach to Issei (first generation immigrant) farmers.
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