Gospel Outreach (Humboldt)

[1] Originally located at Table Bluff, in Humboldt County, California, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Fields Landing, at an elevation of 318 feet (97 m) on a bluff adjacent to the Pacific Ocean,[2] the local movement still exists with a school and Church in Eureka, California which was completed in 2009, as well as three churches located in Portland, Oregon, Olympia, Washington, and Tacoma, Washington.

[3] During the 1960s, members of the hippie counterculture sought a simple life; many were drawn to areas away from large cities and getting back to the land.

The Lighthouse Ranch was an abandoned Coast Guard station occupying 8 acres (32,000 m2) of coastal land 11 miles south of Eureka, California.

In 1971, Jim Durkin, a local pastor and real estate agent, formed Gospel Outreach to purchase the ranch from Ken Smith.

Throughout the 1970s and 80's, the organization established churches in Palmer, Alaska; Chicago, Illinois; Brooklyn, New York; Silverton, Oregon; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1951 view of Coast Guard Station that became "The Lighthouse Ranch" before most of buildings were razed, leaving the signal building. The Table Bluff Lighthouse (lower left) was moved to Eureka's Woodley Island Marina located in Humboldt Bay in 1987.