First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood

In 1927 he met Henrietta Mears in Minneapolis and invited her to come and be a full-time Christian Education Director at the church.

Mears also founded the Forest Home Christian Conference Center in the San Bernardino Mountains.

Mears is remembered for mentoring over 400 men and women into full-time ministry, including: Richard C. Halverson, F. Dale Bruner, Darrell Guder, Donn Moomaw, Louis Evans Jr., Colleen Townsend Evans, Margaret Kerry, Bill Bright, and she encouraged and counseled Billy Graham.

Louis H. Evans was senior pastor from 1941 to 1953, during which time the membership grew from 1,400 to its peak of 8,900, according to the church's website.

During these years, the church drew congregants from an area much larger than the Hollywood community, taking advantage of its access to the Los Angeles freeway system (the church is located one block south of the Gower Street exit from the Hollywood Freeway).

A long incremental decline in Sunday morning worship attendance was arrested under his tenure and the church entered a new season of growth.

Increase in Sunday attendance was complemented by more than 700 people participating in Meenan's mid-week Bible study course, "The Word Is Out."

In 2005, disagreements with the Presbytery of the Pacific caused Meenan to renounce the jurisdiction of the Presbyterian Church (USA).