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Bel Air Church (also known as Bel Air Presbyterian Church) is a conservative Christian megachurch located in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The church, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), currently averages more than 1,500 in attendance each weekend. ==History & Facility == Since its founding in 1956, Bel Air Presbyterian has become one of the largest churches in Los Angeles. The church is located on the Educational Corridor on Mulholland Drive, on a hill overlooking the San Fernando Valley. On High Holy Days, Bel Air Church hosts services for the Stephen S. Wise Temple, a Reform Jewish congregation, which is located in the same Bel Air neighborhood. The original sanctuary organ was a four-manual, sixty-eight rank mechanical action pipe organ by Casavant. It was seriously damaged, mostly by water leakage, in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. It was later rebuilt as a pipe combination instrument with a digital console from Rodgers Instruments Corporation, in protest of which Casavant declared it to be "destroyed" and stricken from their register of surviving instruments. At the time of its re-dedication, it was one of the world’s largest digital/pipe combination organs in the world. In 2007, the church completed a $12 million campus expansion program, ''The Campaign for Bel Air: Phase I'', which included the two story Education Building, Discipleship Center, and Administration Building, including staff offices with views overlooking the The Valley. Former Senior Pastors include Rev. Dr. Louis H. Evans Jr., Rev. Dr. Mark Brewer, Rev. Dr. Michael H. Wenning, Rev. Paul Pierson, Rev. Dr. David G. McKechnie, Dr. Donn D. Moomaw, and Rev. Dr. Michael Wenning. Dr. Moomaw gave the invocation at President Ronald Reagan's first inauguration in 1981. Rev. Dr. Wenning gave the invocation at President Reagan's state funeral. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bel Air Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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