WHERE TO WORSHIP

April 6, 2007 12 AM PT

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a partial list of places to worship in Laguna Beach. If you would like to list your church, temple or synagogue, send us your listing via fax to 494-8979 or e-mail to coastlinepilot@latimes.com. Please include the name of the place of worship, the address, phone number, service times and pastor or rabbi.

CALVARY CHAPEL SEASIDE

Sunday Worship, 10 a.m.; Friday Night Worship Service, 7 p.m. at Lang Park Multi-purpose Room, Wesley Drive. Child care and Children’s Ministry available. For more information call (949) 200-7388 or www.calvaryseaside.org

CALVARY LAGUNA

6:30 a.m. Saturday, Laguna Main Beach

Men’s Prayer 6:30 a.m. Saturdays at Laguna Main Beach

The Edge, Bible Study for all ages, 6:30 p.m. Mondays, Coffee Pub, 384 Forest, Lumberyard Mall. Information: (949) 679-1000 or www.CalvaryLaguna.com.

CHABAD JEWISH CENTER

30804 S. Coast Highway

Laguna Beach

499-0770

Service times: Monday through Friday, 6:15 a.m.; Friday evening, 6 p.m.; Saturday morning, 10:30 a.m. (Jewish Mysticism at 9:45 a.m. before Services)

Rabbi: Eli Goorevitch

CHRIST CHAPEL OF LAGUNA

286 St. Ann’s Dr.

(949) 376-2099

Sunday services at 10 a.m.

CHURCH BY THE SEA

An Evangelical Free Church

(Formerly Calvary Evangelical Free Church)

468 Legion Street

(949) 494-6191

www.LagunaChurchBy TheSea.org

Sunday Services held at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Sunday School for infants through junior high

Junior High & High School Youth Group meets Tuesday nights from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST

635 High Drive

494-3040

Service times: 10 a.m. Sunday; 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, testimonials.

Sunday school: 10 a.m. Sunday

Child care provided for all services.

Christian Science Reading Room

284 Forest Ave.

494-4503

Open daily except Sunday and major holidays.

HARE KRISHNA CULTURAL CENTER

285 Legion St.

494-7029

Public Service 5 p.m. Sunday

Tukaram Garvey, Director

LAGUNA BEACH NEW THOUGHT SPIRITUAL CENTER

Center for Prosperous Living

204 Santa Rosa Court

(949) 715-0294 or www.lagunabeach-cpl.org

Sunday, noon, Sacred Sunday Gathering and potluck at the center office.

Rev. Diane Wolcott Watson, Founding Minister and Spiritual Director

Offering accredited practical spirituality classes; mediation, peacemaking and nonviolence trainings; Science of Mind and metaphysical workshops and movies.

LAGUNA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

415 Forest Ave.

(949) 494-7555; www.lagunapreschurch.org

Sunday service 9 a.m. (traditional) and 10:45 a.m. (contemporary service with Praise Band); nursery, toddler care and Sunday school.

Dr. Jerry Tankersley, Dr. Steven Sweet, Dr. Kathy Sizer, Rev. Jim McCluskey, ministers.

Pastor’s Bible studies at 9:15 a.m. Tuesdays and 7 a.m. Wednesdays.

Holy Week Services

April 6, Good Friday: At noon, a solemn Service of the Cross will be held.

April 8, Easter Sunday: contemporary service at 8 a.m., traditional services at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.

NEIGHBORHOOD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

340 St. Ann’s Dr.

Laguna Beach

494-8061

An “Open and Affirming” Congregation of the United Church of Christ.

Service times: 10 a.m. Sunday, adult and children’s service; coffee hour follows.

Interim Pastor: Rev. Dr. Bill Peterson

Healing prayer service offered first Sunday of each month at 11:30 a.m.

Labyrinth — Walking meditation on the third Wednesday of each month, 6 to 7:30 p.m.

ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA

990 Temple Terrace Drive

Laguna Beach

494-9701

Service times: 8 a.m. Monday through Saturday; 5:30 p.m. Saturday; 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon; A Spanish mass is celebrated at 1:15 p.m. Sunday. Confessions, 4 to 5 p.m. Saturday

Pastor: The Rev. Eamon O’Gorman

ST. FRANCIS BY-THE-SEA

430 Park Ave.

Laguna Beach

497-4678

Service times: 9 a.m. Sunday

Pastor: Archbishop Simon Talarczyk

ST. MARY’S EPISCOPAL

428 Park Ave.

Laguna Beach

494-3542

Service times: 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sunday, with child care available at 10 a.m.

Healing service 10 a.m. Tuesdays

The parish office is open 9 a.m. to noon Mondays and Fridays; and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays

Rector: The Rev. Elizabeth Rechter

ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN

1190 Morningside Drive

Laguna Beach

494-7998; St_PaulsLutheran Church@msn.com

Service times: 10 a.m. Sunday; Sunday School and adult Bible study classes begin at 9 a.m.

Vicar Douglas D. Francik, Pastor.

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

685 Park Ave. at Manzanita (across from the high school)

Laguna Beach

494-6095

Service times: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday; 7 p.m. Wednesdays, teens

Bishop Christopher Wilson

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP

429 Cypress Drive

Laguna Beach

497-4568

Service times: 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Children’s religious education program provided. Coffee and conversation follow services.

Co-ministers: The Rev. Sarah Moldenhauer-Salazar and Rev. Stefanie Etzbach-Dale.

April 8: Yearning for Renewal — An Easter Flower Communion Service. Join us as we explore the ways in which different traditions express their yearning for renewal and what those expressions say about their value systems. This service is part of a four part series in support of the Visioning Process and will include a Flower Communion -- so bring a cut flower to represent the beauty of your yearning. Rev. Stefanie Etzbach-Dale

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

21632 Wesley Drive

Laguna Beach

499-3088

Sunday services: 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. (During 8:30 a.m. service, child care and elementary Sunday School provided. During 10 a.m. service, child care and elementary through high school Sunday School provided.)

Youth Group, Sundays, 5-7:30 p.m., snack supper, fun and fellowship.

Pastor: The Rev. Ginny Wheeler

Easter services:

April 8, Easter Sunday: 6 a.m., Sunrise Service at Main Beach (bring chairs, blankets and flowers for the cross); 8:30 a.m., “Joyful Noise Praise Group,” Rev. Wheeler preaching; 10 a.m., Chancel Choir, Trumpets, Bells; Rev. Wheeler preaching; Easter egg hunt follows 10 a.m. worship.

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