Good News Bible Chapel

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Good News Bible Chapel in Attleboro was established in 1935 by Arthur and Ceinwyn Stebbings, Eugene and Hilda Quarnstrom, and Walter and Florence Jacobsen. In the early 1930s, the Stebbings were living in Pawtucket, RI and were in fellowship at Pawtucket Gospel Hall, an assembly with it's background in the Open Plymouth Brethren movement. Mr. Stebbings had a small printing business in Attleboro. Through his business, he came to know the Quarnstroms and Jacobsens who were Attleboro residents. The three couples began meeting together in their homes to study the Scriptures. The early years... In 1935 the three couples decided to begin a fellowship in Attleboro. In the first week, ten people met to break bread. They met in homes until they moved to a store front at 201 Pine Street in the summer of 1936 and initiated two outreach ministries which continued for decades: a Christian children's club on Friday nights and outdoor preaching on the Attleboro Common. Good News has moved around a few times. From 1938 to 1950, they rented space in the Oddfellows Building on Bank Street and took the name Christian Assembly of Attleboro. From 1950 to 1954, they met in a converted garage at 32 Major Street, and there took the name Good News Chapel. In 1954, the assembly purchased an historic schoolhouse building at 138 South Main Street and remained there until 1976. The current land was purchased in 1977 and the original chapel wing of the current facility was built. ...

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