Bel Air Church (also known as Bel Air Presbyterian Church ) is a Presbyterian church located in Los Angeles , California . Its campus is located on Mulholland Drive in the Encino neighborhood.
29-618: The Bel Air Church was founded in 1956 in Los Angeles. It met in the home of Rev Louis H. Evans Jr for four years and then moved to its current building on the "Educational Corridor" on Mulholland Drive , overlooking the San Fernando Valley . In 2007, the church completed a $ 12 million campus expansion program, The Campaign for Bel Air: Phase I , which included the two-story Education Building, Discipleship Center, and Administration Building, including staff offices overlooking
58-436: A single . Portions of Sepulveda Boulevard have had the name changed, especially most of those segments that were designated by state officials as part of State Route 1. Hermosa Beach historian John Hales said that the city formally adopted the name of Pacific Coast Highway in 1947 to possibly end a dispute to whether to name the route Sepulveda or Camino Real. In 2018, the city of El Segundo also decided to formally change
87-685: A station at Exposition Blvd on the E Line while Metro Busway has a station of the same name on the G Line . The A Line has a station in Long Beach at Long Beach Blvd within Willow Street, which is a section of the same road as Sepulveda after its terminus. A large portion of the boulevard is set to be served by the Sepulveda Transit Corridor which will include the Sepulveda Pass . The entire route
116-613: A continuation of SR 1 . In 2018, the city of El Segundo renamed their portion of SR 1 to Pacific Coast Highway from Rosecrans Avenue to Imperial Highway where SR 1 continues again as Sepulveda Boulevard. Past Imperial Highway, it crosses the western terminus of the Century Freeway (I-105) , going through the LAX Airport Tunnel to pass under its runways. The road then passes through an interchange with Century Boulevard , which provides access to LAX's terminals to
145-602: A faint footpath used by the native Tongva people. Sepulveda Boulevard was named in 1925 after 18th century cattle rancher Francisco Xavier de Sepúlveda , whose ranch, Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica , extended from the route to the Pacific Ocean . Between the City of Hermosa Beach and Lincoln Boulevard, the road was once signed as U.S. Route 101 Alternate until being replaced by State Route 1 , and between Lincoln Boulevard and San Fernando Road (formerly US 99 ),
174-507: A mentorship program that matches families exiting homelessness with volunteer teams from faith communities, corporations, and other committed organizations. The church has an outreach department that partners with other community service organizations in Los Angeles. On Jewish High Holy Days , the Church hosts services for the Stephen S. Wise Temple , a Reform Jewish congregation in
203-472: A private service for the family of First Lady Nancy Reagan before her state funeral at the Reagan Library . Drew Sams was officially ordained as the church's senior pastor and head of staff on April 13, 2014, where he joined Care Crawford, Kim Dorr-Tilley, and later Mike Morgan on the church's leadership team. Some notable members of the church include: Bel Air Church helped found "Imagine LA",
232-585: Is a street and road in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California . It is named after pioneering Los Angeles civil engineer William Mulholland . The western rural portion in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties is named Mulholland Highway . The road is featured in a significant number of films, songs, and novels. David Lynch , who wrote and directed a film named after Mulholland Drive , has said that one can feel "the history of Hollywood" on it. Jack Nicholson has lived on Mulholland Drive for many years, and still did so as of 2009 . The main portion of
261-585: Is in Sylmar , running from Roxford Street north to San Fernando Road . Sepulveda Boulevard was formerly the longest street in the city and county of Los Angeles, with the Los Angeles Times reporting in 2006 that it was around 42.8 miles (68.9 km) in length. The City of El Segundo has since renamed their portion SR 1 Pacific Coast Highway. In 1769, the Spanish Portola expedition ,
290-421: Is known by many as "Dirt Mulholland". This portion connects with other unpaved roads and bike trails and allows access to a decommissioned Project Nike command post that is now a Cold War memorial park. (This portion of Mulholland Drive was open to through traffic as late as the 1990s before being permanently closed to motor vehicles so that they would no longer interfere with the natural beauty and wilderness of
319-663: Is primarily a frontage road along the Golden State Freeway (I-5) . Prior to the construction of the 405 freeway in the 1960s, that disjunct piece and the main section of Sepulveda Boulevard were one continuous street, separated when the 405 freeway interchange with the Golden State Freeway was built atop the section between Rinaldi and Roxford Streets and referred to as the "boulevard of death" due to having over 30 deaths in 11 years at this now demolished segment. Public transit along Sepulveda Boulevard
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#1732791453057348-510: Is provided by several bus lines. The north-south part provides bus service in the San Fernando Valley by Metro Local line 234, through the Sepulveda Pass by Metro Rapid line 761, through West Los Angeles, Culver City and LAX by Culver City Transit Line 6 and Rapid 6, and from LAX onwards by Metro Local line 232. The west-east portion of Sepulveda Boulevard provides bus service by Torrance Transit line 7. Metro Rail has
377-747: The Los Angeles Basin , the San Fernando Valley , Downtown Los Angeles and the Hollywood Sign . Mulholland Drive has some of the most exclusive and expensive homes in the world, housing mainly Hollywood celebrities. The eastern terminus of Mulholland Drive is at its intersection with Cahuenga Boulevard at the Cahuenga Pass over the Santa Monica Mountains (at this point Cahuenga Boulevard runs adjacent to Highway 101/The Hollywood Freeway). The road continues to
406-751: The Los Angeles National Cemetery . After going past Bel Air , it parallels the freeway up the Sepulveda Canyon. At the Skirball Cultural Center , Sepulveda Boulevard then curves west away from I-405, passes through a tunnel under Mulholland Drive , and then follows a serpentine route down the north side of the Sepulveda Pass . It then passes under I-405 just before crossing Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks . Sepulveda Boulevard then runs parallel to
435-801: The Pacific Ocean coast and the border of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. 34°07′53″N 118°29′24″W / 34.1313°N 118.49°W / 34.1313; -118.49 Sepulveda Boulevard Sepulveda Boulevard is a major street and transportation corridor in the City of Los Angeles and several other cities in western Los Angeles County, California . The street parallels Interstate 405 for much of its route. Portions of Sepulveda Boulevard between Manhattan Beach and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) are designated as part of State Route 1 (SR 1) . Since 2018, there have been four distinct segments in Los Angeles County signed as Sepulveda Boulevard. The southernmost of
464-417: The San Fernando Valley . The campus also has a full-service café . Former senior pastors include Louis H. Evans Jr., Mark Brewer, Michael H. Wenning, Paul Pierson, David G. McKechnie, Donn D. Moomaw , Michael Wenning , and Mark Brewer. Moomaw gave the invocation at President Ronald Reagan 's first inauguration in 1981 . He also gave the invocation at President Reagan's state funeral and presided over
493-627: The area.) The road opens again east of Topanga Canyon Boulevard (State Route 27) at Santa Maria Road but remains dirt until it reaches Saltillo Street. Shortly thereafter, the thoroughfare splits into Mulholland Drive and Mulholland Highway . Mulholland Drive terminates at U.S. Highway 101 (the Ventura Freeway), where it becomes Valley Circle Boulevard. Mulholland Highway continues to the southwest until it terminates at State Route 1 (PCH) in Leo Carrillo State Park at
522-716: The best known scenic roads in the United States." The street has experienced multiple closures throughout the years due to mudslides and storm damage, with the latest one being in 2024. The 21-mile (34 km) long mostly two-lane, minor arterial road loosely follows the ridgeline of the eastern Santa Monica Mountains and the Hollywood Hills , connecting two sections of U.S. Route 101 , and crossing Sepulveda Boulevard , Beverly Glen Boulevard , Coldwater Canyon Avenue , Laurel Canyon Boulevard , Nichols Canyon Road , and Outpost Drive . The road offers views of
551-660: The east of I-405, crossing the Ventura Freeway (US 101) and the Los Angeles Metro G Line rapid transit route, and through the San Fernando Valley communities of Van Nuys and North Hills , to its northern terminus at the Rinaldi Street interchange with I-405 in Mission Hills . The northernmost section of Sepulveda Boulevard in Sylmar , running from Roxford Street to San Fernando Road ,
580-433: The first Europeans to see inland areas of California, traveled north through Sepulveda pass on August 5. The party had been travelling west, intending to reach and follow the coast, but were discouraged by the steep coastal cliffs beginning at today's Pacific Palisades and decided to detour inland. They found the pass through the Santa Monica Mountains and followed it into the San Fernando Valley. The pass had originally been
609-756: The four segments is an east-west route located in the South Bay , and continues west as Camino Real in Torrance and east as Willow Street in Long Beach . The second segment runs from Manhattan Beach north to the southern border of El Segundo . The third segment runs from LAX, through the Westside regions, and over the Santa Monica Mountains at the Sepulveda Pass into the San Fernando Valley . The northernmost section of Sepulveda Boulevard
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#1732791453057638-425: The name to Pacific Coast Highway to better appeal to visitors as being a coastal community. Since 2018, there are four distinct segments in Los Angeles County signed as Sepulveda Boulevard. All four once connected to each other . The three north-south segments were once a continuous route but were separated by local renaming and freeway construction. There is no current evidence that the southernmost east-west route
667-505: The road was once signed as State Route 7 until being replaced by Interstate 405 . The part of the route that runs through the San Fernando Valley was a major hub of prostitution . The entertainment industry has also referenced the street. The 1931 comedy film Everything's Rosie has a chase scene that goes through the newly built Sepulveda Boulevard tunnel. In 1946, the Jay Livingston and Ray Evans composing duo wrote
696-522: The road, from Cahuenga Pass in Hollywood westward past Sepulveda Pass, was originally called Mulholland Highway and was opened in 1924. It was built by a consortium of developers investing in the Hollywood Hills. DeWitt Reaburn, the construction engineer responsible for the project, said while it was being built, "The Mulholland Highway is destined to be one of the heaviest traveled and one of
725-402: The same neighborhood as Bel Air Church. In 2018, the church packed and distributed over 10,000 meals to those in need at Thanksgiving . This annual work started in 1986. The church also ran free Christmas concerts later that year. 34°07′50″N 118°29′07″W / 34.130581°N 118.485296°W / 34.130581; -118.485296 Mulholland Drive Mulholland Drive
754-471: The song Sepulveda in tribute to the street; the song would be recorded by Alvino Rey and his Orchestra with Joanne Ryan for Capitol Records , as would The King's Jesters for Vogue Records . Sepulveda Boulevard, along with Pico Boulevard , is mentioned in the title and lyrics of a novelty song Pico and Sepulveda composed by Eddie Maxwell (Eddie Cherkose) and Jule Styne ; this song was recorded by Freddy Martin and his Orchestra in 1947 for release as
783-613: The west and the San Diego Freeway (I-405) to the east. At the north end of LAX, SR 1 branches to the west as Lincoln Boulevard while Sepulveda Boulevard continues north to become a primary thoroughfare through the Westside region cities and communities of Westchester , Culver City , West Los Angeles , and Westwood . In Culver City, north of Slauson Avenue , it merges for a few blocks with Jefferson Boulevard . From Jefferson, Sepulveda Boulevard runs parallel to I-405 as it goes through West Los Angeles and Westwood, passing
812-583: The west, offering vistas of the Hollywood Sign , Downtown Los Angeles , and then Burbank , Universal City , and the rest of the San Fernando Valley with the San Gabriel , Verdugo , and Santa Susana Mountains . The road winds along the top of the mountains until a few miles west of the San Diego/ Interstate 405 Freeway . Just west of the intersection with Encino Hills Drive, it becomes an unpaved road not open to motor vehicles. This part
841-592: Was once continuous with the north-south segments. The southernmost segment is an east-west route located in the South Bay area that continues east as Willow Street near SR 103 in Long Beach , and west as Camino Real before Torrance Boulevard in Torrance . It crosses the Harbor Freeway (I-110) in West Carson . Sepulveda Boulevard then resumes at Artesia Boulevard in Manhattan Beach as
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