Live, Work and Pray

As Downtown Grows, New Religious Leaders Come Searching for Their Flocks

by Evan George
Downtown LA News

Three years ago, Kevin Haah received a phone call that changed his life. Then an associate pastor at a large Korean church on the outskirts of Chinatown, Haah was asked what he was doing to reach out - and spread the gospel - to the new people moving to Downtown Los Angeles.
Kevin Haah left a Chinatown ministry to open his own Christian church. Like a handful of other religious leaders, he is targeting the new crop of Downtown residents as his future congregants. Photo by Gary Leonard.

"For some strange reason that conversation never left my head," Haah said.

The question helped spur Haah to action: He has embarked on the long process of founding his own Christian church in Downtown. With his wife and a handful of believers, Haah is scouting locations for what will be called the New City Church of Los Angeles. He said he is considering the newly opened ImaginAsian cinema house on Main Street as a temporary location and is surveying residents as to what kind of worship service they would attend.

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