How does Grace Church in Bayside, California, stand out from the rest?

Baysides, California (AP) Grace Church of Baysiding is a quiet, old-school Christian congregation.
They’re a few doors down from a church that opened more than 30 years ago, and a few hundred feet away from a neighborhood of churches that once included a drug rehab center.
And though the church has no membership, the people who attend are mostly people who are on their way out.
Grace is one of the few Christian churches in Bakersfield.
Its members don’t have a phone number.
Grace’s church is a small one, just over 300 people, mostly people with small children and the elderly.
And when the church’s president, John Davenport, got a phone call from a reporter last year, he was overwhelmed with emotion.
“I said, ‘How can we do this?’ and it was like, ‘We have to,'” Daventon recalled.
“We’re going to do it.
It’s what we do.”
The pastor, who calls himself the pastor of God’s kingdom, has spent his life in the Bible Belt, and it shows in the church.
He’s the pastor and pastor of the church that was established in 1954 by a group of Bakerside pastors.
The Baysiders, who are mostly Baptist, don’t live in the same neighborhoods as other Christian congregations.
The congregation has no worship center.
Its meetings are not public.
And its pastor, a retired auto mechanic, has no background in theology.
He says he’s a pastor by choice, because he doesn’t have much time.
“If I didn’t have this, I’d probably be a janitor,” he said.
He said he’d like to make a career as a minister, but the church isn’t ready yet.
But when he and his wife, a nurse, bought a home in 2016, they knew they needed to move.
“This place was just amazing,” Daventown said.
“The food, the facilities, the staff, the churches.”
The church opened a few years ago.
Now it’s bigger than the other Baysider churches, with a parking lot.
There are several worship spaces, but they are mostly small ones.
There is a church hall.
And DavenTown has a small building next door that houses a large kitchen and a dining room.
He wants to build a bigger church in the next few years.
The new church, which is about a mile from where he lives, is the result of years of hard work.
Davensons wife was pregnant and wanted to have the baby.
They were struggling financially, and they wanted to make sure their baby would grow up in a family where he wouldn’t have to worry about anything.
“She said, I want a Christian family, and this is what I want,” Davons pastor said.
Davon has two children, both girls.
I just pray, you know, that God will help me and give me what I need.” “
You can’t imagine it.
I just pray, you know, that God will help me and give me what I need.”
It wasn’t easy for Davenson.
He was on disability for two years.
But he said he didn’t know how much money it would cost to buy a new house.
He had to start working.
He built a business with his wife and two sons, including two dogs.
And he started paying off debts.
Daventons son, a Marine, has since joined the Navy.
“He’s very proud to be a Marine,” Davetnons wife said.
But she worries about her son.
“What happens to the kids?
What will happen to their parents?”
Daventons wife, who works at a food distribution center, also said that her son has a lot on his mind.
She worries about him, too.
“Are they going to be able to afford college?” she asked.
“Do they want to get married and have kids?”
Davontons son recently joined the Marines.
Davawns wife said her son, who is in the Army, has a tough time getting along with people.
“People say, ‘Hey, you’ve got this great church, don’cha?,’ ” she said.
And, “That’s just not true.”
He’s now working on getting a job.
He doesn’t want to say how much he makes, but he said that’s what he’s working toward.
“And then the next question is, ‘Are they good at it?’
I say, “Yeah, we’re great.
We’re not doing anything wrong.
We’ve been blessed.
“The story of Grace is a tale of faith, hope, faith, faith.
The church started in 1954 as a Baptist congregation in Bakington.
It grew and grew