The Christian Arabic Church was founded on both the pillars of evangelism and discipleship. The vision goes back to the beginning of the nineties where a handful of Christians having the same vision and motive to reach millions from the Muslim world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their native language.To fulfill this vision, the journey began in 1994 with reaching out to Arabs attending the soccer world finals in New York City , followed by the World Olympics in 1996 in Atalante, GA.
Then 1998 in France followed by soccer world cup finals in Greece 2004. While the church continued locally to reach out to the Arabs in the southern California areas and particularly in the city of Anaheim which is known as the Arabic city where tens of thousands of Arabs reside.
We also have continued to expand our ministry by purchasing time from the available Arabic broadcasters on both local and global stations, as well as passing out recorded gospel messages on cassette tapes at that time. In addition, we started the first Christian Arabic website called “Nafaza.com” (= window) to share the gospel with the Arab world in their native language. The vision continued to flourish, and as a result the Christian Arabic Church was established to be a launching pad for that mission. In September 1993 Pastor Nabil Abraham was ordained as the church pastor, and pastor Samuel Samaan in November 2002.
The church began to branch off, adding more ministries as the need arose such as: Sunday school, Youth program, Young adults, New Families ministries, Men and Women ministries as well as Second Generation ministries for College and new Graduates.
We continued to sow the Gospel seeds independently reaching Arabic gatherings locally such as the Southern California Arabic annual Festival, door to door evangelism passing out Arabic Bibles tracks in public places, malls and where there are heavy Arab gatherings for almost 20 years.
In 2007, the church began broadcasting its services through satellite TV both locally and internationally in addition to other special TV programs.
After the Arab spring in 2011, The church was flooded with many refugees and immigrants from some Middle Eastern countries.
The Church took a step by faith and started to freely provide aid to those who were badly in need of food, medicine, and legal assistance. In addition to dedicated full days providing free food, medical & dental services to the sick and unprivileged refugees. In August 2015 after the war broke out in Iraq and Syria, hundreds of thousands of civilians fled for their lives. CAC took a different evangelistic approach.
We formed teams of Christian doctors, nurses, counselors, Sunday school workers and other ministries to reach these masses of Iraqi and Syrian refugees and offer our Christian humanitarian and medical assistance where they escaped from the terrorist and extremist Muslim organizations in Arab neighboring countries. In 2016, The Church was successful in filling a 40 feet container with clothes, school supplies, toys, and medical equipment to the refugees in Erbil, Kurdistan. In 2018, the church had another successful mission trip to Lebanon to serve among the Syrian refugees’ campuses.