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马打瑞位于内陆省，距根地咬十六公里。居民主要是杜顺及巫律族，从事耕种及饲养家畜为生，归真前多信奉天主教。
1960年一位天主教徒朱留士所多门（今彼得执事）到担波罗利谋生，与巴望教会的姊妹结婚而信主。1967年夫妇俩迁回马打瑞，被主感动，发起热心，向亲戚朋友们传福音，有三十人相继受洗归入本会，并在彼得执事家成立祈祷所。
在1975年初建盖首间简陋小会堂，根地咬教会的黄路加执事也于安息日协助证道。由于信徒数已达七十人，全体信徒便在1981年合力自建一座较宽大约耗资五千马币之木板会堂。
1990年信徒会议通过，认为有需要另建一间较好的会堂，于是信徒开始筹备得马币二万元，另外尚有根地咬教会及其他教会的资助，当地信徒的合力协助，一座马币六万多元的会堂于1993年9月25日献给主用。
Matanoi Church
The Matanoi Church is situated about 16 km north of Keningau in the Interior of Sabah. The inhabitants consist of mainly Dusuns and Muruts aborigine. They are most farmers and prior to their conversion, belonged to the Roman Catholic Church.
In the year 1960, a Catholic youth by the name of Julius Sodomon （later, Deacon Peter） emigrated to Tamparuli to look for a living. He was converted to the True Jesus Church through his marriage to Sister Maliah Ugar of the Bawang Church.
The couple went back to Kampong Matanoi for good in 1967. Having been moved by the Lord, the couple testified zealously to their relatives and friends. Thirty of them were later baptized into the Lord and set up a prayer-house at the residence of Dn. Peter.
A simple small church was built in 1975 and Dn. Luke Wong of the Keningau Church came occasionally to assist in the Sabbath services. Because of the number of membership was increasing and closed to 70, there was a need for a bigger room. Therefore, a wooden church, costing RM$5,000, was constructed by the members themselves in 1981.
In the year 1990, it was decided in the General Church meeting that a more presentable church be constructed. Hence, the church members began to raise fund and a sum of RM$40,000 was collected.
With the collaboration of all the local members and financial assistance from the Keningau and other churches, a new church building costing more than RM$60,000 was completed and dedicated to the Lord on September 25, 1993.