Gardena Valley Baptist Church

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Address:
1630 West 158th Street, Gardena, CA 90247
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Website:
gvbc.net

Phone number:
+1 310-323-5683

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Reviews about Gardena Valley Baptist Church

• Mel Frank

  Nov, 08 2018
  ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
  I am not a big fan of this church. We are not Japanese but my wife is a Hapa from Honolulu. We recently moved to Gardena and was looking for a place of worship. We went to this church in June. What we were shocked was how they poorly they treated us. When we entered the church they were very unwelcoming and acted as if we did not belong there. After the service, when I held out my hand to the pastor to shake his hand he just blew right past me. I could not believe it. When I asked my Japanese neighbor about the church, he admitted to me that the church does not like "Gai-jin". I told him that they have white people on their staff. He told me that that was just a front. When I visited the YELP website, I noticed how they filtered all of their negative reviews and keep all their positive ones. They are really corrupt. Avoid this church at all costs.
• Earl Nakamura

  Mar, 27 2018
  ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
  As a Nisei, I have repeated have had negative experiences with this church. I have been a member of this Japanese American church for many years and they treat me very poorly. I have been very generous in the area of donations and my kids have volunteered for this church for many years. My wife Karen is Caucasian and they treated her badly. We have repeatedly fought with each other because of this issue. I told her that she didn't understand the Asian way of being reserved. She accused the church members of being self-absorbed arrogant snobs. We eventually ended up getting divorced. This is not the way Christians are supposed to behave. Furthermore, I also disapprove of their lavish spending. Someone told me they have a giant screen TV is a room where most of the church members are not given access. I did not believe it so I asked around. And to my horror discovered that this was true. Why does one need a big screen TV at a church? You don't need it for presentations or for screening Christian movies. I was at Manzanar where we lived on rations and ordered things from Sears catalogues. There are many other churches in the Gardena area like All Nation Seventh Day Baptist Church on Normandie or Calvary Baptist Church by El Camino College. I am very angry and I never will go to this church again! They are hypocrites and they are need to study the scriptures more and watch less TV

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