Churches in Whittier

Active churches in Whittier

8100 Colima Rd., Whittier
dreamcitychurch.us
5 sermons · 2 days ago
7038 Pickering Ave, Whittier
regency.church
3 sermons
8100 Colima Road, Whittier
wacc.net
1 sermon

Types of churches in Whittier

Modern Whittier Churches

Modern Whittier churches feature band-led worship, practical messages, and casual spaces that appeal to students and young professionals near Whittier College and Uptown. Many offer multiple Sunday service times, livestreams, and midweek small groups meeting around Whittier Boulevard and the Greenway Trail. Commuters off the 605 and 60 appreciate easy parking and early services.

Spanish-Language Churches

Reflecting the city’s Latino majority, Spanish-language and bilingual congregations are common along Whittier Boulevard, East Whittier, and the neighborhoods south of Uptown. Services often include simultaneous translation, culturally rooted music, and ministries that support immigrant and multi-generational families. Expect holiday observances and community events that spill into local plazas and school campuses.

Historic & Liturgical Churches

Rooted congregations around Uptown and Michigan Park worship in older sanctuaries with stained glass, pipe organs, and traditional liturgies. These churches tend to draw long-time Whittier families who value reverence, choir music, and a slower pace anchored in the city’s early heritage. Many host seasonal concerts and quiet prayer services that contrast with the bustle of nearby Penn Street and Greenleaf Avenue.

Family Churches in Whittier

Family-focused congregations prioritize kids’ check-in, preschool programs, and youth groups timed around East Whittier City School District and Whittier Union calendars. Parents from Friendly Hills to West Whittier value safe spaces, parking, and flexible service times that work around Saturday sports at Michigan Park and Parnell Park. Expect frequent parent meetups and VBS weeks that fill quickly.

Sermon clips from Whittier churches

52s
#ChooseRelationships
“You see, your phone cannot do for you what people can do for you. And we have fallen in love with ease and pleasure, and we want everything to feel good, but not everything that feels good is good for you, and not everything that hurts is bad for you. Pornography feels good, but it's bad for you. The dentist hurts, but it's good for you. Cheesecake is amazing, but it's bad for you. The gym hurts, but it's good for you. But we have believed the lie that God wants us comfortable. He wants us comforted. He wants everything to be easy. But listen to me closely. Relationships are not easy, but they are the plan of God for our lives.”
62s
“the more his life will be released and this way of living will flow through you in a greater measure. So my final slide conclusion. is desiring to stretch us individually and to stretch this church to go wider, to expand, to have greater influence and touching lives in our community, in our work wherever we go. But we need to strengthen our stakes because God's saying let's go wider, let's expand. So grow deeper in God, strengthen your stakes by cultivating the soil in your heart, by quiet times, by prayer, through spiritual disciplines which you use at times. Follow the way of Jesus and as you live with the Holy Spirit's empowerment you will see expansion and the promises of God fulfilled. Praise God. Hallelujah.”
36s
#FullyKnownLoved
“But listen, the hard cry of every human is to be fully known and deeply loved. Maybe you've never heard that before. Maybe you don't know how to receive that. Maybe you don't know how to express that, but the heart cry of every human is to be fully known and deeply loved. Every man in here, every woman in here, the toughest dude in here, the most emotional woman in here, the most emotional man in here, the toughest woman in here. We all desire to be fully known and deeply loved.”
32s
#BreakTheCycle
“But we are a nation that is isolated and is full of fear. And let me just say this about isolation and fear. They are married. They breed each other. Isolation creates fear, and fear creates isolation. And before you know it, you are isolated, and you are afraid of breaking out of that cycle of isolation because you are stuck in a cycle. And I'm praying tonight that God breaks every one of us out of fear, out of isolation tonight.”
54s
“Without a doubt, David had an incredible perspective in life. It was faith filled. It was God honoring. It was rock solid. David was not one of those guys who went around saying, I'll believe it when I see it. It was actually the opposite was true. David saw listen to me. David saw the victory before the battle even took place. He already saw himself in in in triumph, in victory, declaring, look what the Lord has done. He saw it. He declared it. He released it, and he rejoiced in it before it even happened. Can somebody say amen? What an incredible perspective in this life.”
52s
“When we get up here and I know some people might think, man, all of those pastors, they sound like broken records when when when we say, you know, be here on the weekend. Be here on Wednesday night. It's not just so that we can say, hey. We've had this amount or that we've had we broke this attendance. We know that spending time in God's house is transformative. You just never know. You just never you just never know when God is going to use a particular service, a particular sermon, a particular song, a particular smile, a particular hug, a particular hello that's gonna change your life forever. You just never know. And so when we get up, we understand you we need to make the house of God a priority and a passion in our lives. Can somebody say amen?”
48s
“One of the reasons why we follow pastor Luke on this leadership journey is because he has a red hot vision. It spills over onto us. It spills over onto you. You gotta have a red hot vision. More than anything else, you need a red hot vision of who God is. Is your passion for God boiling or is it tepid? Is it simmering? Is it just kinda on the back burner? And I would go as far to say if anything or anyone pushes your passion buttons more than your passion for God, something in your life is out of order. Because your passion for God needs to come first and foremost.”
37s
“``But I wanted to marry a guy that actually loves God more than he loves me Because she grew up in a home that that ended up in divorce, and what she saw was that her father put her mother on such a pedestal, God came second, and it it divided the house, and the family ended up in divorce. And she said, I don't want that. She said, I want a man that's gonna love Jesus more than he loves me because if he loves Jesus accurately, he's gonna treat me exactly the way that I need to be treated. Can somebody say amen?”
51s
“Otherwise our tent will collapse. So I really believe God is saying to you as a church and as individuals, God is going to bring expansion but you gotta strengthen your stakes. So next slide. We need to be a people who are not just going wider but we're also going deeper. You know I've been Christians and I reckon some Christians are a mile wide and an inch deep and boy it worries me. You know, so I want to go over three things that will help you strengthen your stakes and enable you to stretch wider to expand. So next slide. How to strengthen your stakes? The first one is cultivate the soil of your heart.”
46s
“where it just seems like nothing's happening and we can have God's promises for it. We think, oh, it's just barren. God, we need breakthrough. And that's the times when we can sing to God in those barren times. Now you were great here. I loved it. You have such wonderful worship here, but we gotta do that at home. You know, it's when we hit the hard times at home, we can go like this. We've got to rise up in faith. Turn on the worship. You know, start singing in faith. Remember those how would you like to be in Babylon in exile for seventy years? Much worse than our circumstances, you know, and yet they were singing in faith.”

Why Whittier churches are unique

Rooted in a Quaker-founded city, churches in Whittier often combine a practical, service-minded faith with moments of quiet reflection. That legacy appears in hands-on neighborhood projects, peace-oriented teaching, and simple rhythms of prayer, with many congregations emphasizing community service and local outreach, contemplative prayer gatherings, and peacemaking and social justice focus.
With a large Latino community and many multigenerational households, Whittier churches frequently offer bilingual worship and family-centered ministries that make newcomers feel at home. Congregations reflect the city’s friendly, close-knit culture through welcoming plazas, intergenerational events, and ministries like bilingual Spanish-English services, strong kids programs for young families, and multigenerational small group culture.
Geography also shapes the scene: from the walkable blocks of Uptown to hillside neighborhoods and nearby colleges, the mix of students, commuters, and longtime residents encourages variety in style and schedule. You’ll find Whittier churches balancing time-honored liturgy with fresh expressions—think modern worship with contemporary band, college student ministries, and weekday gatherings for commuters that fit the local rhythm of work and study.

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