Remembering Nazi victims and fragile freedoms
International Holocaust Remembrance Day gives Jehovah’s Witnesses time to reflect on victims of Nazi persecution California resident...
For The Madera Tribune
Jan 26, 2024
Jehovah’s Witness Convention convening in Madera
Madera Assembly Hall to host first large conventions of congregation since 2019 After a three-year pandemic pause, one of the largest...
For The Madera Tribune
Jul 21, 2023


Madera’s ‘fire and brimstone preacher’
For The Madera Tribune Borden’s Cumberland Presbyterian Church, shown here circa 1900, stood resolutely behind Rev. W.B. McElwee in his...
Bill Coate
Oct 19, 2022
Witnesses return to knocking on doors
Jehovah’s Witnesses will resume its trademark door-to-door ministry, beginning September 1; the two-and-a-half-year suspension of the...
For The Madera Tribune
Aug 27, 2022


Pastor Profiles: Charles Fryer, preaching the word of enlightenment
For The Madera Tribune Charles Fryer was appointed to be the pastor of Hull Avenue Church of God in Christ on Jan. 17, 2009. Fryer...
For The Madera Tribune
May 7, 2022


Valley West celebrates Pastor Leach
For The Madera Tribune Pastor Lance Leach and his wife Barbara. Lead Pastor Lance Leach, and wife Barbara Leach, are now serving in a...
For The Madera Tribune
Apr 23, 2022
Jehovah’s Witnesses return to in-person meeting worldwide
All congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses across the world were being encouraged to begin holding in-person meetings last week. For most...
For The Madera Tribune
Apr 9, 2022
Divorce went up in flames
“Gloom, despair, and agony on me; deep dark depression, and excessive misery.” Coming from that old television show, “Hee Haw,” that...
Bill Coate
Apr 6, 2022




