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Set Free had a humble beginning in a little store front building on Yucaipa Blvd. In May of 1993, Pastor Willie Dalgity and his wife Marsha held their first worship service in that building. This was a step of faith as they left their home church, Bryant St. Baptist, with a small group of brothers and sisters to take Jesus to the streets and the drug culture of Yucaipa and the surrounding area. <br />No money was available for salaries, so we continued at our respective jobs to make ends meet. <br />Most of those reached were poor and many struggled with problems of drug and alcohol abuse and ruined families that are often associated with such. <br /> We believed and still believe that there is a forgotten mission field right here in America. It's called our own back yard. <br />So we knew that Set Free Yucaipa was the very spot where God's love could meet the most desperate of human needs. <br /> Realizing the limited impact that any one church could have in as large a geographical area as the Inland Empire of Southern California we began to plant churches in other needy areas of the Inland Empire. <br /> We trained our own pastors through our pastor school and sent them out with small groups of workers from our own congregation. We started a replication of the work we had begun in Yucaipa.<br />There are now 22 daughter churches. Set Free Yucaipa also sponsors churches in Haiti and St. Vincent, as well as, an orphanage training center in India.<br />These missions have seen a demonstration of the far reaching power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. <br /> February 16, 2003 we opened our new facility on Calimesa Blvd., an 18,000 sq ft. building on 3 1/2 acres situated on the I-10 interstate. What incredible exposure! <br />We remodeled the interior and have transformed the former State Farm Insurance offices into a very cool worship center which can seat over 500, state of the art nursery and toddler rooms, and a Kidz Zone for elementary age youngsters. <br /> Sundays we are averaging 400 people in attendance at