House Of Miracles (communal House)

The House of Miracles was a series of Christian communal houses established during the early

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under the auspices of Pastor Chuck Smith and

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Costa Mesa, California Costa Mesa (; Spanish for "Table Coast") is a city in Orange County, California. Since its incorporation in 1953, the city has grown from a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 to an urban area including part of the South Coast Plaza–John Wa ...

. The House of Miracles was the group from which sprang the largest (and one of the longest lasting) of the

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communal groups, the

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, which had 100,000 members and 175 communal houses spread across the United States and Canada during its lifespan. On May 17, 1968 John Higgins, Sr. and

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opened the first House of Miracles in Costa Mesa on 19th St. There were twenty houses eventually involved as Houses of Miracles throughout California: one each in Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach (Philadelphia House), Corona, Downey, Lompoc, Garlock, Long Beach, Muscoy, Oxnard, Pacific Grove, Ridgecrest, Southgate and Whittier; two houses apiece in Fontana, Riverside and Santa Ana; and one in Phoenix, AZ. All gradually closed throughout 1969 and 1970 as members moved to Oregon to form

: the last House of Miracles (in Oxnard) closed in July 1970. {{DEFAULTSORT:House Of Miracles Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity Christianity in California Calvary Chapel Association