Langley Christian Assembly Langley BC

We are a diverse group of Christians from many different cultures and backgrounds, who have been saved by God’s amazing grace. For more than 100 years, a local church has met in the Murrayville area. Our prayer is that we may serve God and this community for many years to come.

Some key principles that frame our foundation:

We are trying to model New Testament church practices and principles in how we meet and function—Acts 2:41-42.

We are Christ-centered. We love the Lord Jesus Christ and want Him to have the pre-eminence in everything we do. (Colossians 1:18).

We are gospel focused. Each of us has been saved from the penalty of our own sins and now wants others to discover Jesus Christ as their own Saviour. For this reason, we regularly preach the gospel of Jesus Christ (I Corinthians 1:23).

We are independent and self-governed. This church is not affiliated with any denomination or parent organization, nor have we elevated any single church member into a position of leadership over the church. Instead, under the headship of Christ (Colossians 1:18), we look to the Bible to guide us, with a body of overseers/ elders providing servant/shepherd leadership to the church. (Titus 1:5).

We want to be a good neighbour. Regardless of whether you share our beliefs or not, we want to be friends to everyone and an asset in the community (Galatians 6:10). We also seek to reach out to the community with adult evangelism, a Sunday School ministry for children and ESL outreaches. Individually, we are born again Christians, endeavouring to live as followers of Jesus Christ. Collectively, we gather together very simply for worship, prayer, teaching and study of the Bible.

Although our individual testimonies might include a wide variety of details, we believe that anyone who is a born again believer, or Christian, will have these points in common:

* There was a specific time and place of salvation—it was not a gradual process

* There was a realization of sin and unworthiness before a Holy God, resulting in a repentant heart

* There was a moment when we realized that when Jesus Christ died on the cross, it was to pay the price for our sins, and we trusted His work on the cross for our salvation.

 

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Free ESL Class

Come and join us for coffee & friendship.
We are a small group that meets together to learn everyday English and to study the Bible
We meet on Monday’s at 9:30 am.
All are welcome!

Women’s Missionary Class

The Ladies Missionary Class meets on the 2nd & 4th Thursday of each month at 10:00 am.

The class meets to package boxes of supplies to send overseas to missionaries for distribution. They make a variety of items such as receiving blankets, quilts, dresses, bonnets and booties, diapers, bandages, slippers etc. They also make cloth bags filling them with hygiene supplies, bandages for the mission hospitals, and approximately 600 calendars each year in different languages.

The class occasionally will host a luncheon for visiting missionaries providing an opportunity for them
to tell of their work in foreign countries.

Ladies Bible Study

Each Tuesday Morning @ 10:00 am
Join us for a good time of fellowship and conversation around God’s Word.  

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The Christian assembly now meeting at Langley Gospel Hall in Murrayville had its start in the home of the Langley pioneer farming family, William and Kathleen (Katie) Brown. William was born at Stratford on Avon, England in 1876 and Katie (nee Reid) in Ontario in 1877. William and Katie’s families both emigrated to the Walhalla area of North Dakota where William and Katie were married in 1903. They later moved to Asquith, Sask., then about 1910 to Langley Prairie in B.C. They bought a 30-acre farm on the south west corner of 200th Street and the Fraser Highway and soon began a Sunday School in their home.

In 1912, two evangelists, Mr. J. J. Rouse and Mr. C. Summers, came and pitched a tent a few yards west of what became the site of Keith Beadle Motors, holding gospel meetings there for some weeks, and later moving to what was to become the site of the B and K Economy Store. As a result of these meetings, a company of Christians began to gather in the home of the late Mr. William Brown. This was the beginning of the Christian assembly that now meets in the Langley Gospel Hall in Murrayville.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown were known as true Christians who practiced what they preached. Alice Brown, their daughter, was a well-known schoolteacher, and the Alice Brown Elementary School in Brookswood is named after her.

Besides the Browns, J. J. Rouse, and Charles Summers, those involved in the start-up of the assembly were the Willox, Mercer, and Ritchie families. The assembly has in the past commended missionaries to the Netherlands, Newfoundland, and Japan.

In 1931 the first Gospel Hall was built on the Brown farm property and was noteworthy for being built in one day. Mr. S. E. Mathews, who was there at the time, recorded that:



David Warner Nixon (who was a building contractor by profession) from Cedar Cottage Gospel Hall arranged for most of the studs, floor joists, rafters and other structural members for the hall to be pre-cut and ready to be assembled by the “work crew” in order to expedite the construction project. He also arranged for some skilled tradesmen to be part of the crew to guide the “willing” and “able” non-professionals.

A Langley Advance article published in the late ’60s noted that, ‘Many times the Christians meeting at the Gospel Hall are asked, “Who are you?” “What denomination do you belong to?” “What do you call yourselves?” They reply that they own no name, except that they are Christians gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Matt. 18. 20. They have no organization but acknowledge Christ only as their head. The Bible alone is their rule and guide. They report that there are thousands of such companies all over the world, but the only link between them is that they belong to Christ and seek to follow His word. Fellowship is spontaneous when they see the scriptures being followed, and they say the Holy Spirit links them together as they follow the pattern laid down in Acts 2. 41-42, when the church was first formed.

They believe that a person becomes a Christian only by the new birth, John 3. 3. There must be the acknowledgment of sin and its penalty, Rom. 6. 23, and an acceptance of Christ as one’s personal Saviour. This transaction is a reality bringing one to know the saving and cleansing power of the blood of Christ, 1 Cor. 18. No one gets paid to preach the gospel in the hall, as they count it a privilege to do so.

They believe that the Holy Spirit fits and enables a man to preach after he has experienced the joy of sins forgiven through the precious blood of Christ. One can only tell of the saving grace of God after they have received it for themselves. The group celebrates the Lord’s Supper each Lord’s Day at 9:30 a.m., holds two Sunday Schools at the hall and at 2830 Johnston Townline at 11.30 a.m., a Gospel Service at 7.30 p.m., a Prayer Meeting and Bible Reading on Wednesday at 8.00 p.m., and a street meeting in Langley on Friday nights at 7.45 p.m’’.

As the assembly grew, a porch was added, the hall was raised and a full basement installed. By 1970 the location had become a busy business intersection and a move was made to the present location at 4775 – 221st Street in Murrayville. The hall was enlarged in the 1990s to accommodate the needs of a growing congregation. There are currently about seventy members in the assembly. Visitors are welcome to all the assembly activities and services, which still follow a similar pattern to that noted in the Langley Advance article. No offerings or collections are taken.

Looking back over the 106 year history of the assembly, there have been great changes in Langley Prairie and vast changes in the society we live in and serve. If William and Katie Brown were to come back today there would be very little of Langley they would recognize, unless they lifted their eyes to the north and east, ‘The Golden Ears’ and ‘Mount Baker’ would look the same. If they looked into the new and enlarged Gospel Hall, the carpets on the floor and the padded chairs might take them aback. Theirs was a simpler lifestyle, and the old hall was in keeping with that lifestyle.



However, were they to look into the new hymn books they would see the same old gospel hymns they loved, and if they looked in our Bibles they would find the same message, as true and pertinent to our needs today as it was in theirs. And that is as it should be. Certain things do not change. ‘For I am the Lord, I change not’, Mal. 3. 6. ‘Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away’, Matt. 24. 35; Mark 13. 31; Luke 21. 33. For all our technical advances in the past 100 plus years, our human nature and its needs remain the same. ‘For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you’, 1 Pet. 1. 24, 25.

Basic to all human nature is a need for meaning and purpose in life. We live out our time on earth, conscious of our mortality but haunted by a longing for eternity that nothing under the sun will satisfy. It is not until we get the matter of our eternal destiny fixed that we find peace and rest for the soul. That’s why this assembly sticks to the name ‘Gospel’ (meaning ‘good news’) Hall on the front of the building; for in the Bible and in the Person of Jesus Christ we have found the answer to that ultimate question – What about eternity? And that is good news indeed!