Shadow Mountain Community Church is a Baptist megachurch in El Cajon, a city in San Diego County, California, and is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. The congregation held its first meeting in 1909. Originally meeting in a house located on the corner of 41st Street and Adams Avenue, the church was formally established in 1912 as …
Shadow Mountain Community Church is a Baptist megachurch in El Cajon, a city in San Diego County, California, and is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. The congregation held its first meeting in 1909. Originally meeting in a house located on the corner of 41st Street and Adams Avenue, the church was formally established in 1912 as Scott Memorial Baptist Church in North Park, San Diego. This name honored U.S. Army chaplain Winfield Scott. In 1936, Rev. Arthur F. Colver assumed the pastorate. Following significant growth, Scott Memorial East was established in El Cajon on Greenfield Drive in the 1950s. The congregation was later renamed Shadow Mountain Community Church. The original Scott Memorial Baptist Church in North Park was renamed Scott Memorial Community Church and later became Grace Community Church. For 25 years, the church was led by senior pastor and best-selling author Tim LaHaye, who came to San Diego in 1956. David Jeremiah succeeded LaHaye as senior pastor in 1981; in 1982 he launched an international radio and television ministry called Turning Point Ministry.
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