IDEA-CHURCH GROWTH STUDIES PROGRAM

A SPIRITUAL MAPPING NOTEBOOK ON

THE GREATER LOS ANGELES METRO AREA

(GLAMA)

Prepared by

Clifton L. Holland

First Edition: June 6, 1994

Last Revision: June 20, 1996

A MINISTRY OF IN-DEPTH EVANGELISM ASSOCIATES (IDEA)

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OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION: Is there A FUTURE AND A HOPE for the City of the Angels? What in the world is God doing in GLAMA/Southern California?

2. SIGNS OF RENEWAL/REVITALIZATION IN GLAMA & SO. CALIFORNIA: MOVEMENTS OF UNITED PRAYER & SPIRITUAL MAPPING INITIATIVES

2.1 Love L.A./Shepherd's Prayer Gathering (since 1989)

2.2 Prayer Conferences in L.A. & Orange Counties (1991)

2.3 Bob Beckett's Spiritual Mapping Initiative (Hemet, 1991-92)

2.4 Early Discussion of a GLAMA Spiritual Mapping Task Force (1992-94)

2.5 Emergence of the GLAMA Spiritual Mapping Network (GSMN) & the California Prayer Evangelism Network (CPEN)

2.6 The California Prayerwalk (March-April 1995)

2.7 Lift L.A. (November 1995)

2.8 San Pedro Pastor's Fellowship/Prayer Walking in San Pedro

2.9 Reclaiming the Valley Ministries (San Gabriel Valley)

2.10 Inland Empire 2000/Prayer (San Bernardino & Riverside)

2.11 Love & Pray Ventura County

2.12 Plans underway to develop web pages for GLAMA & Inland Empire

3. AN OVERVIEW OF SPIRITUAL MAPPING/SPIRITUAL WARFARE STRATEGIES

3.1 The A.D. 2000 Movement and Beyond: Spiritual Mapping Track

3.2 George Otis: Last of the Giants, "Spiritual Mapping" (chapter 4)

3.3 Harvest Evangelism: A Prayer Evangelism Strategy for Reaching Your City for Christ (outline and excerts)

3.4 John Dawson: Taking Our Cities for God (see outline)

3.5 C. Peter Wagner: Breaking Strongholds in Your City, "Mapping Your Community" (chapter 9)

3.6 The Sentinel Group: A Spiritual Mapping Field Guide (see outline)

3.7 A.D. 2000 Movement: Cities Track Guidelines (Viv Grigg)

3.8 Institute for Global Urban Studies: City Profile Questionnaire

4. AN OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF LOS ANGELES & ENVIRONS

4.1 Seidenbaum: AA Chronology of the City of the Angels, 1781-1980" (see chart)

4.2 Clark: Los Angeles, A City Apart; "Los Angeles Through the Ages: A Chronology" (130 million years ago to 1980)

4.3 Holland: A Chronology of Key Events, Natural Disasters, Battles, Riots and other forms of Unnatural Death and Destruction in GLAMA: 1769-1996

4.4 Holland: Notes on the Name and Origin of the City of Los Angeles

4.5 Holland: Maps and Photos of Early Los Angeles & Environs

4.6 Fogelson: The Fragmented Metropolis, "Los Angeles, 1850-1930"

4.7 Hart: Our Changing Cities, AIndustrial Development in Southern California, 1970-1987"

4.8 Turner & Allen: "Migration Into and Out of L.A. County in the 1980s"

4.9 Friedman: "Why the Big Apple is no Economic Model for L.A." (L.A. Times article, 6/12/94)

4.10 Current Economic Reports: June 1996

5. AN OVERVIEW OF SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT IN THE PRE-HISPANIC AND HISPANIC PERIODS
(6,000 B.C.-1849 A.D.)

5.1 Rasmussen: "L.A. Scene, Southern California Then and Now" (L.A. Times article, 2/28/94, dealing with archeological sites)

5.2 Chartkoff: The Archeology of California (selections)

5.3 Johnston: California's Gabrielino Indians (Tongva)

5.4 Reid: Letter #1 (identification of Tongva village sites at time of the Spanish conquest)

5.5 Kroeber: Handbook of the Indians of California, "The Shoshonean Stock" (chapt. 39) and "Religion and Knowledge" (chapt. 56)

5.6 Bean & Smith: "The Gabrielino" (in Sturtevant/Heizer)

5.7 Forbes: "The Tongva of Tujunga to 1801"

5.8 King & Blackburn: "The Tataviam" (in Sturtevant/Heizer)

5.9 Bean & Shipek: "The Luiseño" (in Sturtevant/Heizer)

5.10 La Lone: The Gabrielino Indians of Southern California, An Annotated Ethnohistoric Bibliography

6. AN OVERVIEW OF SOCIAL/ETHNIC/CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE AMERICAN PERIOD (1849-1995): THE QUEST FOR COMMUNITY

6.1 Holland: The Religious Dimension in Hispanic Los Angeles, "The Anglo dimension in Hispanic church development" (1849-1910)

6.2 Fogelson: The Fragmented Metropolis, "The Quest for Community" (1850-1930)

6.3 McWilliams: Southern California Country, "The Los Angeles Archipelago"

6.4 Steiner: Los Angeles, The Centrifugal City, "The Evolving Cityscape" and "The Plural Populace" (1781-1980)

6.5 Davis: City of Quartz (see book; offers a critical analysis of life in the "big city" with all of its risks and opportunities)

6.6 Pearlstone: Ethnic L.A. (see book; gives overview of ethnic diversity in GLAMA to 1990)

6.7 Garreau: Edge City, "Southern California" (analyzes urban growth and the quality of life in the region's "edge cities")

6.8 Los Angeles County Almanac, 1995

6.9 California Statistical Abstract, 1993

6.10 Holland: Charts and Tables on Population Growth in GLAMA

7. AN OVERVIEW OF RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT IN THE AMERICAN PERIOD, 1849-1995: A CITY OF GOD OR A CITY OF SATAN?

7.1 Linthicum: see (1) City of God, City of Satan and (2) Empowering the Poor

7.2 Singleton: Religion in the City of the Angels (see book)

7.3 McWilliams: Southern California Country, "Don't Shoot Los Angeles!"

7.4 Holland: The Religious Dimension in Hispanic Los Angeles, A Protestant Case Study (see book)

7.5 Davis: City of Quartz, "New Confessions" (deals with the Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles)

8. UNDERSTANDING RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN GLAMA: 1990s

8.1 Melton: The Encyclopedia of American Religions

8.2 Holland: Maps and Charts on Religion in GLAMA

8.3 Holland: Toward a Classification System of Religious Groups in GLAMA

8.4 Holland: The Status of Unreached Peoples in GLAMA, 1993

9. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOD DOING IN LOS ANGELES? A CASE STUDY ON THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY (GLAMA, REGION II)

9.1 Teitelbaum: "A Fable for Our Troubled Times" (revised version by Holland)

9.2 Wagner: Our Kind of People/Principal Components of Ethclass Identity

9.3 Dart: "Where We Worship, A Portrait of Religious Congregations in the Valley"

9.4 Dart: Times Poll, "Organized Religion's Hold on Valley Residents Weak"

9.5 Holland: Maps, Charts and Tables on Religious Diversity in the SF Valley

9.6 Holland: Distribution of Protestant Churches by City with Church-to-Population Ratios and Priority Ranking of Under-Churched Cities

9.7 Holland: Distribution of Protestant Churches by MSA/SSA with Church-to-Population Ratios and Priority Ranking of Under-Churched Areas

9.8 Holland: Charts on Ethnic Diversity in the SF Valley

9.9 Holland: A Report on the Status of Unreached Peoples in the SF Valley

10. AN AGENDA FOR THE PRESENT AND FUTURE: GUIDELINES FOR SPIRITUAL MAPPING/SPIRITUAL WARFARE STRATEGIES IN THE CITY OF THE ANGELS

11. AN OVERVIEW OF THE LOS ANGELES A.D. 2000 PROJECT

11.1 The L.A. 2000 Project Description (1990-2000)

11.2 IDEA-GLAMA Research & Information Network (GLAMA-NET)

11.3 IDEA-GLAMA Strategic Mapping & Info Services Order Form

11.4 Holland: A Preliminary Bibliography on GLAMA

12. AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME: OVERVIEW OF IDEA MINISTRIES