First Love Calvary Chapel Whittier

Awesome church. Straight from the bible teaching. Beautiful church family. All are welcome. Wonderful women bible studies. Can’t say enough good things about this church. VBS in the summer for the kids is amazing. If you need a family come out and you will get one!

I love First Love!!! It’s really my second home. I have been attending here for about 3 years now and I feel that I have grown so much in my faith these past 3 years. Pastor John is a great pastor and he really cares for the flock that has been placed under his care. I love Sunday morning service and Wednesday night Bible study. The messages are straight from the Word of God and are taught verse by verse from the book of the Bible we are in, which I like a lot. I love the worship! During worship you can really sense the Holy Spirit filling the church and the believers; that unity is so awesome. Everyone is really friendly and I don’t think there is anyone who would not be willing to listen to you or, of course, pray with you! This church really does put Jesus first and doesn’t water down what the Word of God says. Everyone here is simply a sinner who is saved by grace; willing to admit that they need Jesus! I highly encourage you to attend a service. We have our Sunday morning services and evening service, Wednesday night Bible study, and other various ministries: Men’s Ministry, Women’s Ministry, Children’s Ministry, Junior High Ministry, High School Ministry, Young Adult Ministry, and many more! Come and see what the Lord has in store for you!!!

I love attending this church. The message is always straightforward and seems to speak clearly no matter what phase in life you are in. The Pastor there is great, the children love it there too. My daughter is 7 and loves the children’s services. At random moments she blurs out wisdom that she learns thru the word. With that alone, I can’t ask for anything better. Love this place, thanks for the rescue. :)

This church is a solid house of the Lord. Come here and you will feel welcome, you will learn from the bible and scripture, and you will enjoy great fellowship if you are seeking it! You know when you are in a real church where Jesus is alive it always feels the same with welcoming comfort and trust not like some church’s where it more about religion or the speaker being the focus. Best of all the pastor is a humble and kind guy and his love of the Lord really shines through.

I have never been to this church for a service but I will say that I have talked to Pastor John on several occasions (he comes to do work at the coffee shop I work at in whittier), you can tell that he has a genuine heart for God’s people and he truly loves what he does for his kingdom. I pray for Pastor John and the church he is overseeing every chance I get! I have gone by the church to drop some stuff of for some ministries there and met some of the ladies that worked there and they were lovely and very helpful

Absolutely love this church! I was raised here and moved around nationally for the past few years, only to find myself back in Whittier. What I realized I loved about my home church was that they go through the Bible page-​by-​page and don’t go off on topical rants or biased thoughts based on what the pastor’s bent is. It’s just a «who is Jesus and what does the Bible say about our questions» type of church. I went to so many trendy churches trying to get people with flashy lights… but what I really missed was THIS… getting back to the basics. Getting back to why I am a Christian. So many churches are making themselves too political or the opposite… pleasing the crowd to not offend people… instead of just studying the book our faith is based on. I am definitely glad that this pastor and the people I’ve met here care more about being who Jesus wants us to be rather than who is getting food stamps or what FOX news is saying. Haha very refreshing. I will always come back here to visit even when I move again.