Urban Church (Permanently Closed)
1789 State Street, San Diego, CA 92101
“Fourteen years ago, when my wife and I were engaged,” said pastor Ben Brinkman, “we had the exact same experience at the exact same moment in a college chapel: God showed us having a church in a downtown area.” That was 1995, in Seattle; the couple moved to San Diego in ’99 and helped start a church in Rancho Bernardo. “By 2004, we knew we wanted to start a church downtown, but the timing wasn’t right.” They spent a few years in the desert, helping to start a church in Las Vegas, and then returned in ’08, armed with a year’s worth of financing from the Vegas church ... [+more]