ANAHEIM : Church Finally Has a Permanent Home

Count the Vineyard Christian Fellowship Church as one of the winners of the Cold War.

For years, the Anaheim congregation was forced to meet in a series of industrial warehouses and schools because it couldn’t afford a permanent home.

Not any more. The church now has a spacious home in a business complex once used as a research center by the aerospace firm Rockwell International.

“I like to think of it as part of the peace dividend,” said Kevin Springer, the church’s associate pastor.

The church purchased the two-building, nearly 300,000-square-foot property on La Palma Avenue about a year ago. From the outside, the structure looks nondescript.

But on the inside, much of the space has been transformed into a state-of-the-art church, Springer said.

“It looks more like a large theater than a church,” Springer said.