Our
Story
Pelion Church of the Nazarene was founded in May of 1950. It has been a cornerstone church since then and is situated conveniently at the intersection of Pine St and Norris St just North of the center of Pelion. Here at Pelion Naz, we are passionate about seeing people come to and encounter Jesus. But we do not want to stop there. We are on a mission to make Christlike disciples in the nations, and we start with our own community but our love and passion for missions extends around the world. We are a generous church, a serving church, a loving church. We are a place to be accepted and loved. A place where all are welcome regardless of their past or present situation because we believe in a God who heals, redeems and restores all brokenness in the world in all the hearts of his people who are created in his image.
Our Beliefs
We are Christian. We are Holiness. We are Missional.
We Are Christian
As members of the Church Universal, we join with all true believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ and in affirming the historic Trinitarian creeds and beliefs of the Christian faith. We value our Wesleyan-Holiness heritage and believe it to be a way of understanding the faith that is true to Scripture, reason, tradition, and experience.
We Are Holiness
God, who is holy, calls us to a life of holiness. We believe that the Holy Spirit seeks to do in us a second work of grace, called by various terms including “entire sanctification” and “baptism with the Holy Spirit”—cleansing us from all sin, renewing us in the image of God, empowering us to love God with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves, and producing in us the character of Christ. Holiness in the life of believers is most clearly understood as Christlikeness.
We Are Missional
We are a sent people, responding to the call of Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to go into all the world, witnessing to the Lordship of Christ and participating with God in the building of the Church and the extension of His kingdom (Matthew 28:19-20; 2 Corinthians 6:1). Our mission (a) begins in worship, (b) ministers to the world in evangelism and compassion, (c) encourages believers toward Christian maturity through discipleship, and (d) prepares women and men for Christian service through Christian higher education.