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Hope4me.com Magalia Community Church
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MAGALIA COMMUNITY CHURCH is a non-denominational church whose congregation in recent years has outgrown its original house of worship. Still, services are held in the "Little Brown Church" each Sunday and Wednesday. The historical landmark also plays constant host to weddings and memorials. Not bad for a building which would have been torn down in the early 1900's, were it not for the determined efforts of the members of the local Women's Christian Temperance Union -- including Annie Bidwell, wife of Chico's founder, General John Bidwell.
The church has gone through changes in its congregation and locations and is looking forward to significant facility development and technology advances in its future. Its basic philosophy remains the same: to be a healing, rather than judging station.
Magalia Community Church is one of the oldest churches in Butte County. Founded in 1896, it was the first religious sanctuary in the isolated mining community, according to previously published accounts. It was started by a traveling preacher, Albert Samuel Parsons, who relocated his family to Magalia from the Cherokee area. With the help of miners, he constructed a plain, rectangular building at the "Y" where Coutolenc and Old Magalia roads meet.
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