OUR STORY
Serving the Sunland-Tujunga Community Since 1954
Sunland Neighborhood Church began as an independent non-denominational church on February 4, 1954 and became affiliated with the Evangelical Free Church of America in 1963. An Evangelical Free Church in La Crescenta sold their property and merged with Sunland Neighborhood Church, and a group from North Hollywood Evangelical Free Church also joined us in support and ministry in 1990.

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The building and the plan for the current campus were the vision of founding pastor Paul Kennedy. He was there to supervise all the building and then later returned to oversee the construction of our last project, which was the second floor of the Education building, which provided additional classrooms.

As the name implies, ours is an “evangelical” church. We emphasize the authority of Scripture and hold that salvation is from faith and grace alone, as opposed to good works and sacraments. We are also a “free” church in that the congregation, and congregation alone, determines the destiny of the church. The church leadership, though vested with the authority to direct the course of the congregation, receives that authority from the congregation and works autonomously from the greater denomination.