Welcome
At Madera Avenue Bible Church, you can expect to find a warm and welcoming community of believers who love serving God and others. Thanks for stopping by to check us out!
Sunday service
Join us for worship and a Biblical message on Sundays at 10:00am. Come as you are!
ministries
Children’s, youth, women’s, and men’s ministries offered. Grow with a community of believers.
giving
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Fellowship together
Join us at one of our upcoming events! You and your family are welcome at MABC. We look forward to fellowshipping with you.
what we believe
God
We believe in the one, true, living God, Creator of heaven and earth. God is almighty in power, perfect in wisdom, righteous in judgment, overflowing in steadfast love. God is the Sovereign who rules over all things visible and invisible, the Shepherd who rescues the lost and helpless. We confess God as eternal Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Salvation
We believe God saves all people who put their faith in Jesus Christ. By His obedient life, sacrificial death and victorious resurrection, Christ delivers people from the tyranny of sin and death and redeems them for eternal life in the age to come. All creation eagerly awaits its liberation from bondage into the freedom of the glory of God’s children.
Revelation
We believe God has made Himself known to all people. Beginning with creation and culminating in Jesus Christ, God has revealed Himself in the Old and New Testaments. All Scripture is inspired by God, and is the authoritative guide for faith and practice. We interpret the Scripture in the church community as guided by the Holy Spirit.
Get in touch
Contact Pastor Mike Unger
(559) 904-3915
maunger77@gmail.com
Office Hours:
Monday – Thursday
8:00am – 12:00pm
Location:
124 Walnut Street
Madera, CA 93637
about our church
Madera Avenue Bible Church is a member of the United States Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. Our congregation in Madera had its formation in the community of Fairmead, CA on June 2, 1912. Some Mennonite groups saw Fairmead as a location where they could form a Mennonite farming colony so several families purchased land in the Fairmead area and they formed the “Fairmead Church.” When the soil proved to be inadequate, some of the families began to move away. After several years that church closed. But the remaining Mennonites didn’t want to abandon their Mennonite roots, so they voted to join the Mennonite Brethren.
On October 19, 1919, ten charter members elected Peter Wall as their leader and John K. Lichti as their pastor. An acre of land at 19125 Ave. 18 ½ in the area known as Dixieland was purchased and a church building was constructed. That property was used for our church until 1969. During the 49 years our church was in Dixieland, we joined with other M. B. churches in the area north of Fresno four times a year to worship. There was a bus ministry and every year there was a Daily Vacation Bible School during the summer, usually for two weeks during the day.
In the early part of 1969 our church decided we needed to move in to Madera and so property was bought in Madera and on March 30, 1969 the first service was held in the new sanctuary at the churches current location 124 Walnut St. Since that time the church was named Madera Avenue Bible Church and the church has sponsored VBS, AWANA , and all the normal functions of a church that reaches out to the community around it.