About Wheatland Bible Church
- Wheatland Bible Church was born out of a desire to have a non-denominational church in our community. Many families gathered together to begin this fellowship in the spring of 1972. There were 36 charter members and by October 1973, there were 66 members. The church began in the basement of a home and as the membership grew, the location was moved to a roller mill, then to the Odd Fellows Lodge where it remained for six years. During this period there was considerable growth and there the Sunday school classes met next door at the C.H. Brown Company. Because of the power plant construction, the congregation greatly increased. With the encouragement of Pastor Gordon Swedberg who came in 1974, plans and fund drives were already underway to build our own facility. A ground breaking ceremony was held in April 1980, at the corner of Highway 312 and Palmer Canyon Road. The outside structure was completed within months. After that, the people of the church took over and more than 80% of the inside work was donated. The first Sunday in the new building was February 1, 1981. After several years, WBC was again feeling the need to expand because the education rooms were too small for Pioneer Club and Sunday school classes. Planning began for the construction of the west building with five classrooms and a sixth one that could de divded by a folding partition and included a kitchen and a fireplace. Except for the cement floor, this new building was built by volunteer labor of men and women within the church. The use of this building began in the fall of 1998 with Denzil Mauk as Pastor. Fall 1999, a covered walkway was added to join the two buildings. In 2006, two more rooms were added to the west.