Sarang Community Church

So I hear many great things about this church. So what do I do to find more info? I go online to see their website. It’s all in korean. I can’t read korean. So how do I know what time the adult English service is? I dont. The end.
1-​23-​2016 I received a message from a gentleman named Michael which referred me to
. All the info is there for English speaking people. I look forward to attending. So I’ll up the rating just because of Michael’s help.

Ok I’m just writing a review to review all the negative posts about a church. Everyone can’t enjoy all things just from simply going to a church. It’s only made to praise one God. If you dare to even rate the house of God and just simply talk negative about his house, whats the point even going to church. Yes we do have hypocrites and somewhat fakes. Don’t you know that in his creation were not perfect? We have sinners just like other churches. Whats the point of talking simple negativity if you’re there just to listen to his words, pray for your needs, and talking to jesus in his temple. As it says in the bible, Ecclesiastes 3:20 «All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return» We all go to the same place to worship him, so why do we create all this hate onto his house? You’re just embarrassing yourself on here. Go worship someone else if you care to talk smack on his house. May he bless you and open your eyes. Thank you for taking your time reading this. Amen.

Whether it’s big or small, we all take pride in what church we go. Is it a sense of belonging?
Or is it that Christians are always the first to judge rather than to embrace and love?
I’m not here to say, but I have memories at Sarang Community Church that will last a lifetime.
Sarang is a famous church among the first and second generation Korean community in Orange County. Many Koreans can say that they have attended or been a part of the church at one point of his or her life.
You can see it on the 5 Freeway going south with a big banner that reads «God is Love.»
There are seasonal events and special guest speakers that come and go, most notably Nick Vujicic.
It’s been featured in a Korean documentary regarding the power struggles among the pastors at the Sarang Church located in South Korea.
But I don’t know the details regarding the history and current issues of the political and religious drama.
When I used to attend the services in junior high, a new comer had the opportunity to introduce himself or herself and inform the rest of the audience where he or she is from.
It was a war between the two Korean cities of Cerritos and Fullerton. If a new comer had spoken Cerritos, there would be a series of boos and yays. If a new comer was from Fullerton, the same series of sounds would occur. Who was the victor? We all know the answer to that because we see it with our very own eyes. Fullerton and Buena Park is the metropolis of the Koreans.
But that was junior high and high school got more serious.
One Sunday, my high school teacher by the name of Dr. David Choi had a lesson about a subject I haven’t forgotten. It was about being meek and how Jesus portrayed meekness at the most ultimate level, the cross.
In a world and environment that revolves around the idea of self gain, it doesn’t hurt to be meek. In the media, in current songs, television, pop culture, people don’t care about each other, people have no respect for one another and it’s always about «me.»
It doesn’t hurt to serve others and to pay it forward.
Let pride be set a side.
«Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.»
Matthew 5:5
There were and are still countless times when I forget to be meek, I’m human after all, but then not too long after I remember a simple lesson that was taught on an ordinary Sunday by a wonderful teacher that helps me become a better person, not only mentally, but spiritually.

I’ve been going here since 2000 – 2001 (can’t remember). I love the Korean sermon and English sermon here. It’s a big church, but when you want to get connected it’s easy peasy.
It took my 8 years to become a member. I should have become a member before that, that’s the only regret!
Fyi parking is pretty bad. I suggest you come early. There’s always South Baylo and KDC (better for parents with children).
3^rd Service: HolyWave starts at 11 am SHARP!
GOD is good all the time. All the time GOD is good.

Please people, I walk in to this church because my friends invited me to one of their services and first thing I feel is the vibe that people are judging me, a lot of faces were just staring at me with the weird look. Like I’m not from anywhere else but here in CA like y’all fakes are so don’t think that you guys are better than I am. And please talking behind my back in Korean? I hear you old Korean ladies just because I’m white doesn’t mean I can’t speak Korean, and that is not how my loving parents taught me to treat people at your first greeting. FYI (I was wearing a dress shirt, a tie, and black skinny jeans with toms. I had few tattoos showing here and there but come on girl, you ain’t perfect either. And have you seen these «staffs» treating other companies and catering companies or other city companies??? From what I’ve seen they cannot call them selves Christian. If you a Christian, act like one.

Best church ever hallelujah!!! The pastors are so friendly and the staff make you feel at home. Please show up to the early morning service this week from 12÷2−12÷14!

By the way. what happened to Pastor Stephen Chong? I went to vist Sarang EM and KM on multiple occasions. Sarang means love in English. I felt zero love. Nobody greets anybody unless you are an insider. Sermons are certainly NOT grace-​based but effort and performance based which equate to legalism. For example, the KM pastor talked about bad economy and those who are suffering pales in comparison to suffering of others in the third world. Is this grace based? i was laid-​off at that time and his words hurt. By the Grace of God, I have been working now for the past 2 years.
As a person who have served in ministry for many years including at a major church in L.A., I realize that we need to do a better job of being friendly at churches. Just because you have the numbers at a mega-​church, it does not give you the right to be cold.
Perhaps they should re-​name the church, No-​Sarang. When nobody from the sermon pulpit mentions the word grace and always talks about doing this and that, isn’t that legalism?
Is it not in our blood to be graceful? Do we have to be shame-​based? I would recommend Calvery Chapel and Vineyard churches and stay away from Mega Korean churches like this.

I wrote my first review about 2 months after my family and I began attending «Holy Wave» or the English Ministry side of «Sarang Community Church». If you refer back to the review there are two parts to it. One is a little reflection on my own impressions as a new-​commer. Second part was essentially a rebuttal or response to others who had posted some scathing reviews of «Holy Wave» and its members.
It’s been over a full year since that review and so I thought it would be good to give an update on status.
Our initial interest in seeking out a new church was to engage in deeper Bible Study and a more disciplined Discipleship program. Just for us, that’s what we wanted among other things such as having something more organized and educational for our daughter as well.
Anyway, because of my personal situation (regarding the high demand of work and school), I am not available to attend the required membership classes. Sounds like a typical excuse but actually being in law school as a second career change in the middle of life isn’t easy. Anyway, this is unfortunate but what essentially has happened is that my wife and I have become mere Sunday service church goers. In our previous church life we were much more intimately involved with decisions and serving. I personally think its very important to be involved and build relationships and look forward to engaging once the current needs of our lives have passed.
To get back to the review, I have found overall that people are friendly, even during the truly awkward times when we’re lifting up our fingers and saying things to people around us. The free lunches after worship help. I’ve only recently started taking advantage of that but its been very nice and convenient.
Out of all the nice «things» and ‘services” that the church «gives me» (which sounds so worldly and consumeristic) there is one fundamental thing that I am so glad seems to be a regular practice for Pastor Stephen Chong.
I love the fact that usually… almost always… he refers constantly to the scripture for his message. I refers to the passage… gives background highlights and explains the situation and the sermon is derived directly from the principles from those scripture versus. This is by far the most important part of the sermon to me.
See, I have no interest in how «intelligent» the Pastor is or how clever he thinks he can sound by making some crafty analogy. I have no interest in his psychological conjecture or extrapolation essentially seasoning the scripture with his own worldly opinions or thoughts about what occurred and why. I can get that from secular sources who are professors in those subjects. Why would I want to hear that from a Pastor at church? I come to hear the word of God taught by his servant anointed with the Holy Spirit to teach his children. Pastor Stephen has the demeanor of someone who strives to please the father and not necessarily seek after his own popularity.
I say that because one of the churches my family visited prior to coming here has a Pastor, who is fairly popular in a certain denomination, who does exactly that. He RARELY if ever even looks up scripture. He, in fact, quotes multitudes of secular psychologists and philosophers to support his thesis of the sermon. I find that outrageous and a gross misuse of the pulpit. Anyway, that’s just a personal rant. May God forgive me for being so judgmental but its truthfully how I feel.
I love this church. May God richly bless the people who attend to become movers and shakers to truly impact the world around them for the building of God’s kingdom. May our family be counted among them.

wanna be judged by the congregation and leaders of the church? come to sarang
do you want people to talk behind your back? come to sarang
if you want to get your heart broken with hypocrites judging you… you’ve come to the right place!

Matthew 7:1 «Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
Romans 2:1 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
John 8:7 Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
++++ This church is the reason why I resorted to Buddhism. ++++

Funny, just finished Unilocaling another business and I was curious whether churches made it too. Not sure, if this would actually be «biblical» or not… LoL. But anyhow, I’ll give my two-​cents on it.
Recently relocated back down to SoCal and decided to find a church for me and my fiancée’. After much searching and «church-​hopping», we came across this church.
Even though the church is a predominantly Korean to Korean-​American church; I could tell that the church and its Holy Wave (English speaking) ministry was really about connecting people to each other and responding to God’s word; this can be seen through the ever-​increasing diverse ethnicities that I see every Sunday that I attend church here.
Several other mega-​churches can have enormous appeal in their sermons, praise and worship services; but sometimes lack in smaller-​group dynamics and/​or leadership. I can say through approximately my 5 – 6 times in visiting this church; that this church is dynamically different in that aspect.
This church has true vision, direction, purpose, and an enormously encouraging wealth of leadership in its pastors, staff, and volunteer membership. You can tell the difference between healthy bodies of worship and those that are struggling to keep it together.
This body of worship is most definitely healthy and its thriving. Its a place where anyone can feel welcome and a place where it will encourage you to grow and mature.
The true purpose of faith is to break out of one’s own comfort zone, and this church constantly strives to develop leaders and make that truth a reality.
If you’ve visited this church and simply left immediately after service, and hence made a sweeping judgement based on that one service; I challenge you to make it out to another service and actually attend the newcomers’ welcoming committee after service; and truly see the dynamic principles and core values of this church.
It wowed me enough to stay and want to become a member. Even more so, it challenged me to grow and want to contribute even more of my time for HIS higher purpose and calling.
Even if you feel like you just want to be a Sunday kind of worshipper and are looking for another connection during the week; you’re small step to attending the newcomers’ welcome meeting, will bring into fruition so much more.
Happy church hunting and God Bless

One of the most rare occurrences in church today is bringing all generations together by reducing the generation gap — whether it is because of the language barrier or the cultural difference. At Sa-​Rang Community Church, there was a glimpse of hope for future generations to be raised in a Christian familial culture. It was the first church experience I had that even attempted to celebrate advent and the rest of the holidays together as a «family» in a gathering of 1^st, 1.5, and 2^nd generations alike. I thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere as well as the sermon. English Holy Wave service begins at 11:10am every Sunday.
The only downside, I’d have to say, would be the fact that it is a mega church. It is very difficult to get involved and develop a fellowship there. More of a meet and greet — even for their «small groups» unfortunately.

On April 12, 2009 I attended the 11am Easter Sunday Worship at Sarang’s Holy Wave in Buena Park, CA.
The first time I saw the church I drove right by because I wasn’t sure if I was on the right Brookhurst. Eventually I made my way back to their parking lot where I was guided through the throng into an open spot in the back. They have signs that tell you to flash your emergency lights if you’re a newcomer so I flashed my lights but to no avail. I did not get a special parking spot in the front row of the lot.
The building is really airy and enticing. There were just so many people it felt like a Korean airport during rush hour. There were people streaming in and out. Apparently they have about 4 back to back sermons in the Main Sanctuary. I seated myself towards the back while the choir was practicing and took inventory of the great production in front of me. And yes, it was quite a production.
There was a full choir in matching gowns, an accompanying orchestra, an entire worship team of singers and guitar players, 4 large screens, 3 flat screen tv’s, ushers stationed about 7 aisles from each other and about 3 – 4 camera men to capture it all on the 4 screens and 3 tv’s.
I was handed a program that included an invitation to a golf event on May 2, 2 prayer requests (1 urgent, 1 not so urgent), a newcomer form to fill out and an envelope for my Easter contribution.
The worship began with a ton of praise in the form of song, lengthy announcements, more praise and then the actual sermon. The pastor was all smiles as he cracked joke after joke and read 5Revelations 1:14. The worship ended with more music. The amount of time spent on music praise left a lasting impression.
This is a great place for people who rely on music to feel the presence of the Holy Spirit or for those looking for a significant other. Ah, I almost fail to mention, there was a surprising amount of non-​Korean faces which tells me that God love is really reaching across all cultures. As a social institution this place is magnificent.

I didn’t expect to find about the Sarang Community Church on Unilocal,but I found it. –_-;;
n-​e-​ways, If you have thirst and hunger for your spiritual life, don’t think too much and just attend the worship service at the Sarang Community Church on Sunday.
Pastor Daniel will help you out!
Holywave Worship Service is every Sunday 11:10 AM in the Main Sanctuary.
For more info.
God bless y’all! :)

Parking is a nightmare. Very inner-​city & stark, with propaganda-​ish «artwork» decorating the interior & weird statute in the front. Nice fobbish people. The huge-​ness of the congregation is very intimidating when you are new. The Sunday school is all in Korean, in language & in culture, so if your kids do not speak & are not used to Korean manners, they won’t like it. The EM is very limited, I think. I just really wanted to get out of there. I’d rather go to Bethel, except their EM is no more at this point.

If Young Nak Church is the leading Korean American megachurch in the nation, Sarang Community Church follows right behind. I’d definitely consider Sarang the largest Korean megachurch within Orange County. Like Young Nak, Sarang is so large that it causes traffic jams off the Brookhurst exit off the I-​5 S and I-​5 N every Sunday!
Orientation: Sarang Community Church is based in Anaheim and coincidentally, only four exits away from Disneyland. Sarang means «love» in Korean. The church campus is called the Miracle Complex and you can see the silver globe and cross from the freeway, since it is so large. I wave hi to it every time I drive by when I’m going through OC, since some of my extended family also regularly attend this church.
About Sarang: Sarang is focused on the Korean first generation and 1.5 generations and a majority of its congregation are Korean-​only speaking. There is an active English Ministry, but my visits have found that services are often conducted only in Korean. However, they do offer simultaneous electronic translation if you ask at Guest Services. Sarang has four Sunday services at 7:30 a.m., 9:10 a. m, 11:10 a.m. and 12:55 p.m. The 11:10 a. m service is called Holy Wave and it is intended for English speaking Korean Americans and the second generation.
About Sarang Holy Wave: is led by Pastor David Cho along with a staff of associate pastors. I have to commend Sarang as it has been taking proactive steps to expand the ownership and leadership of the EM at the church. Sarang offers discipleship training and Upper Room small group ministries for you to join. On Fridays, they also have young adults group called NEXT. Sarang’s worship style is contemporary and slightly more charismatic in style. All of the Korean services’ music is heavily influenced by contemporary Korean Christian music, which I like.
What to expect: I’d highly recommend Sarang to you if you are comfortable speaking Korean and with the Korean culture. The EM is growing and many of those who attend have friends at Young Nak and vice versa. Even if you are not Korean or non-​Korean speaking, the EM is a good start and I find them to be welcoming. From my experience, Sarang’s people are compassionate and go the extra mile to welcome those who are seekers.
After every Sunday service, they offer Korean style lunch by Sarang Church’s catering services. The food here is gratis and really quite delicious, while you meet with the welcoming people. In addition, Café L’Abri is really nice, as it features a full-​service café and is a Starbucks environs of sort, with lounge seating in a garden patio environment. A lot of EM events are held here, since it has a warm feel and encourages mingling.
Sarang Church is rapidly expanding, as is Young Nak and is continuously building. As is the case with a large megachurch, Sarang doesn’t have sufficient parking for the crush of people attending. They do shuttle people back and forth with their fleet from the remote lots throughout each Sunday.
Overall, Sarang may not be for everyone, but it may be just the place for you if you can’t drive all the way up to LA. It’s definitely a good church and I’d recommend it.
Four Unilocal Stars for Sarang!

If you can handle the pain in the arse parking situation, this church is not bad. Think of it as your mom’s mega-​korean church, but everything is in English. Lots of interesting people-​watching to be done here (i heart fobs). Their choir and mini-​orchestra are AWESOME! I just wanna jump up and cheer every time they start performing! The sermons are solid and service isn’t overly long at about 1.5 hrs. Everyone and their mothers (quite literally) go to this church, so chances are that you’ll run into ppl here that you hadn’t seen in years (and didn’t really care to see either).
The free lunch afterwards is a nice touch, and if you don’t like the lunch offering, their «café l’abri» sells coffees and snacks.
My family seems to like this place, but it isn’t quite up my alley…
tip — if you don’t wanna deal with the parking nightmare, just find street parking one block north of the chruch in the residential area. totally worth it, trust me.