Charles Farr was a missionary to sailors in the San Pedro Bay in the early years (1901-1920). Phineas Banning, "The Father of the Los Angeles Harbor" donated the hull of the legendary decommissioned "Warrior I" tugboat as a preaching platform and ministry to seafarers. Farr built a floating bethel (a house of God) atop the hull and cared for seafarers, fishermen, and squatters until 1920.

You can get involved in multiple ways.

1. If you love research and have access to information, please contact us. We already have many newspaper articles between 1901 and 1926, and we have three good photos. But we have little information about his youth, his years in Alameda, California (about 1884-1890), his work with the Salvation Army (about 1892-1897), his sailor work as a superintendent of a Bethel mission in Toledo (about 1897-1901) or his death in Tujunga, CA, in 1939. We don't even know where he is buried.  Click here to find out some of our big questions:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bfoMyWmN3Ni4PbDL6Y17JlH5cIfoFKKpblh0sl_JZdA/edit?usp=sharing

2. If you would like to donate to the project, give to Beacon Light Mission in Wilmington, California. Nearly 120 years ago, the founders of Beacon Light worked side-by-side with Farr, attending each other's events, and speaking out on the same issues:  Click to DONATE and leave us a message: https://www.beaconlightmission.org

—Thank you, Gretchen Goldsmith
Head of the project and board member at Beacon Light Mission