Fifty Years and Still Growing for God

  About Us  




Aldersgate Church is a multi-generational group of people who enjoy getting together, having a good laugh and giving our lives to each other and our God. We value our smaller size, recognizing the relational benefits it provides. No one is a stranger among us for long! The bonds we enjoy encourage us in our common faith journey.

If there's a theme to our lives as a church family, it's a desire to be real with each other. Many of us have tried the pretense thing and have found it wanting. We may not be the slickest church in town, and we make plenty of mistakes along the way. But our desire to be all we can be for God is genuine. There just isn't a better way to be - and to live.

 
Our History

The dream of a new Methodist church in north Chico started in a prayer meeting of four enthusiastic couples from Chico's Trinity Methodist Church in 1957: Jack and June Barneson, Hal and Louise Berge, Bob and Mag Rankin and John and Betty Tarr. The power of prayer opened the door for the founding of the church in 1958, and James Corson was appointed as the first pastor. Services were held in the parsonage until the present building was constructed in 1960. 

The church's original name was Lindo Manor Methodist Church. It was later changed to Aldersgate Church, evoking the powerful experience in 1738 on Aldersgate Street in London of Methodism's founder, John Wesley. It was there that he felt his heart "strangely warmed." That was his spiritual turning point. He was changed from a discouraged, defeated missionary to a Holy Spirit-filled Christian. He began to speak openly so that others would have a personal, living relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. 

For over 50 years now, Aldersgate Church has been a place where people have found hope and healing.  They have been welcomed by radical hospitality. They have been loved into the family of God.  Many have discovered new life in Jesus and have gone out into the world as contagious Christians. Someone said, "One can count the seeds in an apple, but one cannot count the apples in a seed.”  Thousands have been blessed by Aldersgate in the past 50 years. May God's blessing continue.


Our Slogan



Our Purpose Statement

Reach  people for Jesus

Grow  in relationship with Christ

Equip  them for their ministry and mission

Go  forth to proclaim the Good News that Jesus Christ is Lord



Our Affiliations

California-Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church

Shasta District of the California-Nevada Conference

Chico Area Interfaith Council


You can find yourself again...and you don't have to do it alone.