The congregation traces its roots to 1909 , when the church had their first meeting in a former dance hall shortly after Pacific Union College 's move to Angwin from Healdsburg . It records having 42 charter members at that time . In 1919 , the congregation met in the chapel of the new college building and by 1921 had 290 members . Until 1947 , the pastor was the head of the college 's religion department . The congregation moved into its own new building in 1968 . Like most churches of the time , its practices were traditional in form with weekly performances by its church choir . 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 . When Healdsburg College , now PUC , was first established , the College operated all levels of the educational experience . However , starting in 1901 , the College Church took over the financial responsibility for the elementary school . They raised a church-school fund . All the children of the church were free to attend the school . In 2000 , PUC Church was noted for being the only church in the Northern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists to have a female pastor . Pastors from the church have been featured at various events hosted by Adventist Churches . The church is active in philanthropy . In 2010 the church raised over $ 25,000 to aid in relief efforts after the 2010 Haiti earthquake . The church has 1,800 members , not including the 1,500 students attending Pacific Union College . Theologian Desmond Ford continued to hold membership at the church after being defrocked . Many years later , in 2001 , he voluntarily requested to have his name dropped from membership for reasons which seem to be unrelated to his defrocking . The stage of the PUC Church is dominated by Pacific Union College 's pipe organ made by organ builder Rieger Orgelbau in the town of Schwarzach in Austria . The organ rises above the front stage of the sanctuary , and its 4,000 pipes range in size from two inches to 20 feet . 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 . 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 . When installation was completed in 1981 , it was the largest organ that Rieger 's company had constructed . In 1996 , a group of German organists listed the organ as one of the top 35 most important organs in the United States
2010 Haiti earthquake
2010 Haiti earthquake
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