Our History
A little more about us
Our local church was organized in 1941 after a tent revival in Columbus WI and is a group of believers from all differing faiths worshipping together.
The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged from the nineteenth-century holiness movement in American Methodism. The denomination was constituted by mergers in
1907 and 1908 of three regional Wesleyan-holiness bodies located on the East Coast, on the West Coast, and in the South.
It is the largest Wesleyan-holiness denomination in the United States. At the end of 2010, the Church of the Nazarene had 2,059,261 members in 26,353 churches in 156 different "world areas". Most
members of the Church of the Nazarene are found in the United States and Canada (663,375), Haiti (116,000), Bangladesh (65,000), and India (59,039). The denomination has the highest per capita
population in the nations of Cape Verde, Samoa, Barbados, Haiti and Swaziland.
The mission is "to respond to the Great Commission of Christ to ‘go and make disciples of all nations’ (Matthew 28:19)". In December 2006, this was expressed more succinctly as "to make Christlike
disciples in the nations". This frames the global mission of the denomination. In 2009 the General Assembly indicated in its revision of Article XI of the Manual the means for accomplishing its
mission: "making disciples through evangelism, education, showing compassion, working for justice, and bearing witness to the Kingdom of God." Since 2001, the three “core values” of the Church have
been identified as “Christian, missional, and holiness.”
The Church of the Nazarene supports 54 undergraduate and graduate educational institutions in 35 countries on six continents around the world.
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