St. Aidan's was founded in 1956 to care for the Malibu beach community.

Since 1956, we've been welcoming everyone from surfers to seniors.

St. Augustine's parish in nearby Santa Monica started St. Aidan’s with a small group of people who had previously gathered to worship in seaside bars and restaurants. The parish purchased a unique hillside site, broke ground, and began building St. Aidan’s Church.

We’ve been honored to gather for weekly worship with communion and to celebrate weddings, baptisms, and funerals ever since. We’ve provided a safe space to meet amidst fires and mudslides, downpours and droughts. We gather to renew our faith, share our struggles, and support each other across the seasons.

St. Aidan’s sits within the traditional homeland of the Chumash people.
We honor past, present, and future generations of Chumash and their continued connection to this land. We are grateful to gather in this beautiful place and we give our respect to its first inhabitants.

“St. Aidan’s Church is a modest structure that sits on a hill at 28211 W. Pacific Coast Highway overlooking Paradise Cove and the blue Pacific Ocean beyond. As glorious as the view might be what is most special about our ‘little village church’ isn’t the setting. It’s the people who come together in this place as a concerned and devoted parish, to worship and celebrate, to console and be consoled, to mourn, to encourage and assist, and sometimes just to have fun. There are all kinds of people, all ages, from all walks of life. The common bond we share is simple. It’s love. Love for God and love for each other.”

— A quote from one of our members

St. Aidan's is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.

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Did you hear St. Aidan's bell ring?
St. Aidan’s bell is rung to call parishioners to service, every Sunday at 10:00am.

We also ring the Freedom Bell every Saturday morning at 10:00am. Since Feb 7th, 2026, St. Aidan's has been participating with Bells Across America, organized by Minnesota City of Bells. The purpose is to call citizens to safety amid deep uncertainty as well as offering hope and courage for the future of our communities. Bells historically have been used to spread messages to people in times of need and distress.

About St. Aidan's Bells

The Freedom Bell

The St. Aidan's bell was donated by the Waldron Family about 2012.

Saint Aidan’s church bell came from the Anthony McGill antebellum plantation in Lenoxburg, Kentucky, where it called hands from the field. Just prior to the Civil War, Baptist Abolishonists held a tent revival nearby, and Anthony attended and became a Christian that day. He informed his wife that, as Christians, they could no longer own slaves, and he immediately freed them. The bell then became known as The Freedom Bell. The two youngest freedmen, John and his wife wanted to remain so they became free share croppers owning a portion of what they grew. There, they lived out their lives and John died at the age of ninety nine.

Anthony, as a committed Christian, donated a parcel of land and helped build the First Baptist Church of Lenoxberg. After he passed, the bell remained in the McGill family. Years later, just before it was to be shipped to Malibu, the town was nearly destroyed by a flood. The bell remained inundated by tons of water and mud for weeks.

Once it arrived arrived in Malibu, Don McCrae laboriously restored the bell from almost two centuries of corrosion. He then designed a metal yoke and built a standing post on which it stands today. Finally, Don and Anthony McGill’s great, great, great grandson, Jamie McGill Waldron, hung the bell in place.

The “Freedom Bell” rings again calling Saint Aidan’s faithful to worship.    

McCrae Bell

St. Aidan’s also has a second bell hand-crafted and donated by Don McCrea.