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Before its renovation into a church, this plant produced parts for the U.S. Air Force's B-2 Stealth Bomber Project. It had a steel frame to enable long spans and open floor plans.

The first home of the Faith Community Church, founded in 1980, was a closed Ralph's Supermarket in the San Gabriel Valley.

Architects David Miller and David Gilmore converted the huge, 165,000-square-foot industrial facility into a Christian Evangelical church beginning in the mid-1990s. The building and its location was perfect for a large-scale, 5,000-person "mega-church" like Faith Community; it had parking for 1,100 cars and was located nearby to four freeways. Self-consciously, the pastor of the church, George Rauscher, wanted to pattern the new facility on a shopping mall, as he felt that malls were welcoming and familiar places for modern consumer/parishoners. The church offered its flock a moveable food court and a bookstore to entice them stay longer. Architect David Gilmore spent a great deal of attention to the removal of traditional religious imagery from the Faith Community design. It was completed in 1998.

PCAD id: 1401