San Diego Reader

• Place of Worship | Carlsbad

North Coast Calvary Chapel

• 1330 Poinsettia Lane, Carlsbad, CA 92009 | Directions
• 760-929-0029 | Website

Portrait of a church on the cusp: North Coast Calvary Chapel, founded as a home Bible study in Encinitas, was housed five years in a YMCA, then ten years in the Vulcan Center (now Encinitas City Hall). They had a brief stint in San Dieguito Academy before settling down in the early ’90s at the edge of a shopping center in Carlsbad. But the thing kept growing. Now, a plethora of blue shade tents has transformed the front parking lot into a regular ministry bazaar, and the church is preparing to move into ... [more]