Le Mars Bible Church is an independent Bible-based
fellowship of believers. It grew out of two Bible studies that were
meeting in the late 1960's. In the early 1970's the two Bible studies
started meeting together. After several months, it was decided to begin a
new church, and in February of 1973, Le Mars Bible Fellowship was formed.
We started with six families and rotated our services in homes for several
months. After some growth, we rented the basement of the Farm Bureau
building. In the spring of 1976, our first pastor Harlan Betz was called.
By 1977, we had outgrown the Farm Bureau building and decided to purchase the
Free Methodist Church building and then changed the name to Le Mars Bible
Church. In the winter of 1982, we built the addition between the church
and the "Lighthouse" to make more room.
David Babbit served as our pastor from the fall of 1982 to the summer of
1987. Pastor Babbit moved on and Fred Gums was called to be our pastor in
August of 1988. As the church continued to grow, we added a youth pastor
to our staff for the first time in 1991, and an associate pastor in 1994.
As a number of new members continued to increase, it was prayerfully decided to
build a new church to meet the needs of the congregation. In 1994, seven
acres of land was purchased. A groundbreaking ceremony was held July 21,
1996. Construction progressed rapidly, and the first service in the new
building was held on October 19, 1997. A
youth building was donated and moved to the church property in November of
2000. In the summer of 2004, the adjoining Botker property was
purchased.The house would be used as a
place for visiting missionaries to stay, and the land would provide space for
any future expansion of our building.A
shelter house and playground area were put in place in 2009. In August 2011, a building addition was completed which included a fellowship hall and youth room.
Associate Pastor
Mike Hulinsky since 2002, and Youth Pastor Matt McGrew since 2008.