We are 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
  • To Know Christ and Make Him Known

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


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What We Believe
Aldersgate Church is an historical, evangelical local church, affiliated with the United Methodist denomination.

The Articles of Religion
When the Methodist movement in America became a church in 1784, John Wesley provided the American Methodists with a liturgy and a doctrinal statement, which contained twenty-four "Articles of Religion" or basic statements of belief. These Articles of Religion were taken from the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England—the church out of which the Methodism movement began—and had been the standards for preaching within the Methodist movement.

These articles became the basic standards for Christian belief in the Methodist church in North America. First published in the church's Book of Discipline in 1790, the Articles of Religion have continued to be part of the church's official statement of belief.

Go to the Articles of Religion

The Confession of Faith
The Confession of Faith is the statement of belief from The Evangelical United Brethren Church. Consisting of 16 articles, the current form of this statement of faith was presented and adopted by the 1962 General Conference.

When The United Methodist Church was formed in 1968 from the union of several branches of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, both The Articles of Religion and the Confession of Faith were adopted as basic statements of the Christian faith.

Go to the Confession of Faith

More information at umc.org

Our Affiliations
California-Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church go
Shasta District of the California-Nevada Conference go
Chico Area Interfaith Council go