On Sunday, August 21, 1932, thirteen people gathered in a North Platte, Nebraska home.  They came not to start a movement that would have a worldwide impact but to pray together and hear teaching from the Bible.  God caused the group to grow as many people in the community placed their faith in Jesus Christ.  Initially known as the the "Church of the Open Bible," in 1935, the fledgling congregation found a more fitting name as "The Berean Fundamental Church."  Though the word "fundamental" has since lost favor in our culture, to those founding families it had a wonderfully simple depth of meaning: it was based on the "fundamentals" of the Christian faith. 

You might be asking, "What does Berean mean?" The word actually comes from Acts 17:11 in the Bible.  It says the Bereans were "noble" because they searched the Scriptures to see if what they were being told about Jesus was true.  We want to be the same kind of people who search God's Word, the Bible, to know the truth.

From the simple beginning of the small group in North Platte, God sparked a movement that, within a few years, grew from town to town across Nebraska and into the surrounding states. Today, the Berean Fellowship comprises of 57 churches throughout the states of: California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky.