The congregation first met in 1909 in a former dance hall shortly after the college moved from Healdsburg to Angwin.

[3] By 1984, the church plant was worth an estimated $7.7 million due to inflation; it had cost less than a third of that amount to construct in 1968.

[4] While the college originally funded all levels of its education, starting in 1901, it took over the financial responsibility for the elementary school.

During planning, designers were concerned about the tendency of the organ to make the balcony shake, leading them to place it at the front of the church.

[3] The organ is distinguished by its significant French influences, departing from Rieger's previous work based on Germanic sympathies; it was influenced by organs built by Frenchmen Dom Bédos de Celles, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, François-Henri Clicquot and Robert Clicquot.