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Posted on December 5, 2014 by Editor Posted in Churches and Religion, Dave Gibbons, Entertainment, Irvine, Santa Ana 3 Comments

Newsong Church is consolidating their Sunday services and some of our ministry activities to their Santa Ana campus. This is big news as they have been around for twenty years – in Irvine. That campus will now be used for training and events.

Newsong acquired what used to be Santa Ana’s historic First Baptist Church last year and renamed it 10Ten, a play on words as they are located at 1010 17th St., in Santa Ana. The church is now full – while it was literally dying when it was First Baptist. This merger of the two Newsong churches will be a real boon to restaurants in Santa Ana as the congregation is bound to have lunch in the area after church services.

The first combined services at Santa Ana are set for this Sunday, December 7, 2014, at 9:00 and 11:00 AM. This will be part of their preview phase in Santa Ana. They say that a Grand Opening will be coming soon. There will be a prayer breakfast and preview tour of the facility on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 8 am. Continue reading→

Updated: First Baptist of Santa Ana votes to sell to Newsong Church

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Editor Posted in Churches and Religion, Dave Gibbons, Santa Ana 19 Comments

Updated: It is a done deal. The members of First Baptist of Santa Ana voted today 42-17 to sell their church to Newsong Church. The Board of Directors of First Baptist will now work out the details with Newsong’s Board of Directors. The deal will total $4 million dollars with $100,000 to be paid up front and the balance to be in the form of a Promissory Note.

According to FBCSA Director Sandy Nalle, First Baptist had perhaps six months to go before becoming insolvent. This deal will ensure that First Baptist will remain a church. Continue reading→

Can Newsong bring new life to Santa Ana’s First Baptist Church?

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Editor Posted in Andy Quient, Churches and Religion, Dave Gibbons, Entertainment, Irvine, Koreans, Latinos, Santa Ana 6 Comments

Dave Gibbons at First Baptist of Santa Ana

William H. Spurgeon, the founder of the City of Santa Ana, purchased seventy-six acres of land from the Yorba heirs in 1869 and laid out what was to become the Orange County seat. With only six or eight homes in the place and about one hundred fifty souls, thirteen people organized First Baptist Church of Santa Ana on a Saturday in March of 1871, at the local school house.

Services were held in the school house until the first church was built in 1876. The cost was $4000 and it was located on four lots donated by Spurgeon at the corner of Main & Church Streets. The interior was unfinished for a number of years and financial problems were so severe during the first 10 -12 years, that the property was sold for taxes several times. At one point, members mortgaged their homes to pay off the church obligations and one member lost his home because of this. And Santa Ana developed, so did the church. As many members were from surrounding area, certain groups took their letters and established in neighboring cities. Continue reading→

Newsong Church Pastor Dave Gibbons to speak in Santa Ana on 9/5

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Editor Posted in Andy Quient, Churches and Religion, Dave Gibbons, Entertainment, Santa Ana 16 Comments

Newsong Church Pastor Dave Gibbons is going to be present at the Santa Ana First Baptist Bible Study & Potluck set for this Wednesday evening, at 6 pm.

Gibbons will be participating in a Q & A, right after the potluck, at 6:45 pm. Gibbons is also prepared to lead a Bible Study as well. Continue reading→

Dave Gibbons’ Newsong Church gets a second chance to minister in Santa Ana

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Editor Posted in Andy Quient, Arts and Culture, Churches and Religion, Dave Gibbons, Santa Ana 13 Comments

The artists at Downtown Santa Ana’s Santora Building have no idea what they missed out on when they rejected the proposed purchase of that building by the Newsong Church. I found out today that they missed out on more than they could have imagined.

A few weeks ago I approached Pastor Andy Quient, my minister at Santa Ana’s First Baptist Church – a historic congregation that first met in 1872. I knew that Newsong’s minister, Dave Gibbons, had expressed a desire to minister in Santa Ana. I had a feeling that he still felt the same way. Quient’s challenge at First Baptist has been filling a church that has lost many of its parishioners over time. Continue reading→