About Community Bible Fellowship

Community Bible Fellowship is not about buildings or programs. It is all about people -- people who love God with all their heart, soul, mind and strength and who love each other as themselves. At CBF we strive to help each other become more like Christ and to help others come to know Christ as their Savior. Sunday mornings begin at 9:30 with worship. This is led by a deacon or elder and includes praise and worship music chosen by the leader, drawn from both traditional and contemporary sources. Also included each Sunday is the celebration of the Lord's Supper, led by another deacon or elder. All who know Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour are invited to participate. A significant amount of time is spent sharing praises and prayer requests; volunteers from the congregation pray for each request. Our worship time concludes with announcements and recognition of birthdays for the coming week. After worship we have a 30 minute break for fellowship and refreshments. Next is teaching time. The adults and senior high students gather in the sanctuary to hear a message from our pastor, while the younger children have Sunday School. A nursery is provided. Purposes To teach the Bible as the inspired and authoritative Word of God for our lives. To worship our Lord Jesus Christ without any denominational guidelines. To encourage and support fellow Christians in their spiritual growth. To reach out to our community to share the message of salvation to the unsaved. To seek to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of those in our church and those outside our church. To support through prayer and finances the proclamation of the message of salvation to the whole world. Denomination Community Bible Fellowship is nondenominational. Its church government follows the New Testament teaching of elder and deacon leadership. CBF does not have any membership roll since there are no privileges for members or exclusions for nonmembers. Bible Version CBF does not have pew Bibles; please bring your personal Bible to use during the services. And yes, you will need it!

CBF meets 1.25 miles east of Medicine Lodge, Kansas at the intersection of Curry Lane and the Isabel Road. Medicine Lodge is a town of about 2,000 in south central Kansas. It is at the intersection of US 281 and US 160, about 80 miles southwest of Wichita. History Community Bible Fellowship came into existence as a result of a gathering of concerned Christians in July of 1987. Approximately 30 people expressed their concern with the lack of an evangelical, grace-oriented church in Medicine Lodge. Feeling that there was an unmet need for Bible teaching and biblical worship in this community, they began meeting in the basement of John Clarke's home. A few months later the name Community Bible Fellowship was adopted, and the church rented the old Grand Hotel as its meeting place. In the spring of 1990, CBF purchased property 1.25 miles east of Medicine Lodge. But on June 10th at the church property, CBF's parsonage and newly remodeled worship area burned. CBF continued to meet at the Grand until April 1991, and then moved to the Christian Church in Sharon. On June 21, 1992, CBF began meeting in the basement of a new permanent church structure on the property east of Medicine Lodge. In late 1999 CBF began work on the top floor of its church building and worshiped there for the first time April 30, 2000. In December 2003 the office building was remodeled to give the youth a larger meeting room. In early 2006 work began on a building downtown to be used as a teen center and an even larger youth meeting room. Reality Check met in the teen center for the first time May 24, 2006, and open house was held June 1, 2, and 3. The final work was completed during the summer and the official grand opening was Aug. 13, 2006.