A History of Hope

Fifty years ago, God called a young pastor named Ralph Moore and his wife Ruby to take over a vacant church building in Manhattan Beach.

Hope Chapel was born. A few years later, that young church was full of new believers and its building was overflowing. In 1976, through a miraculous sequence of events, the growing congregation took ownership of an abandoned bowling alley overlooking the Pacific Ocean on Pacific Coast Highway. God recycled that derelict old building to establish a "light of the hill" in Hermosa Beach.

Ralph was called to go, but Hope was called to grow. Zac Nazarian succeeded Ralph and, over the past thirty-five years, thousands have been pointed to Jesus, many churches have been planted, and the rest is history.