About Us

We are a family of believers on a Spirit-led journey to follow Jesus and help others do the same. Our vision is to see lives transformed as people become Christ-like disciples—growing in faith, love, and service. As an intergenerational and intercultural community, we believe the beauty of God’s kingdom is revealed when people of every age, culture, and background worship, learn, and serve together. At the heart of our life is worship. When we gather, we encounter God, are shaped by God’s Word, and are sent out to live God’s mission in the world. Children are a cherished part of our church family, and we are passionate about nurturing faith in every generation. We are also a sending church. Our desire is not only to grow disciples here, but to share the hope of Christ in our community and around the world. Wherever God calls, we want to be ready to go—bringing Jesus’s love, grace, and transforming power to others. You’re invited to join us as we worship, grow, and follow Christ together.

The mission of the Church of the Nazarene is to make Christlike disciples in the nations.

We are a Great Commission church. As a global community of faith, we are commissioned to take the Good News of life in Jesus Christ to people everywhere and to spread the message of scriptural holiness across the lands.

The Church of the Nazarene bonds together individuals who have made Jesus Christ Lord of their lives, sharing in Christian fellowship, and seeking to strengthen each other in faith development through worship, preaching, training, and service to others.

We strive to express the compassion of Jesus Christ to all persons along with our personal commitment to Christlike living. While the primary motive of the church is to glorify God, we also are called to actively participate in His mission — reconciling the world to himself.

The statement of mission contains historical essentials of our mission: Evangelism, Sanctification, Discipleship, Compassion. The essence of holiness is Christlikeness. Nazarenes are becoming a sent people-into homes, work places, communities, and villages as well as other cities and countries. Missionaries are now sent from all regions of the world. God continues calling ordinary people to do extraordinary things made possible by the person of the Holy Spirit.

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 united with all believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We believe that in divine love God offers to all people forgiveness of sins and restored relationship. In being reconciled to God, we believe that we are also to be reconciled to one another, loving each other as we have been loved by God and forgiving each other as we have been forgiven by God. We believe that our life together is to exemplify the character of Christ. We look to Scripture as the primary source of spiritual truth confirmed by reason, tradition, and experience.

Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Church, which, as the Nicene Creed tells us, is one, holy, universal, and apostolic. In Jesus Christ and through the Holy Spirit, God the Father offers forgiveness of sin and reconciliation to all the world. Those who respond to God’s offer in faith become the people of God. Having been forgiven and reconciled in Christ, we forgive and are reconciled to one another. In this way, we are Christ’s Church and Body and reveal the unity of that Body. As the one Body of Christ, we have “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.” We affirm the unity of Christ’s Church and strive in all things to preserve it. (Ephesians 4:5, 3).

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.

Because we are called by Scripture and drawn by grace to worship God and to love Him with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves, we commit ourselves fully and completely to God, believing that we can be “sanctified wholly,” as a second crisis experience. We believe that the Holy Spirit convicts, cleanses, fills, and empowers us as the grace of God transforms us day by day into a people of love, spiritual discipline, ethical and moral purity, compassion, and justice. It is the work of the Holy Spirit that restores us in the image of God and produces in us the character of Christ.

We believe in God the Father, the Creator, who calls into being what does not exist. We once were not, but God called us into being, made us for himself, and fashioned us in His own image. We have been commissioned to bear the image of God: “I am the LORD . . . your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy”

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 begins in worship, ministers to the world in evangelism and compassion, encourages believers toward Christian maturity through discipleship, and prepares women and men for Christian service through Christian higher education.

Nall Naz traces its beginnings to September 30, 1930, when it was established on Stateline Road near 47th Street as Trinity Church of the Nazarene. From its earliest days, the young congregation experienced steady growth and a strong sense of community. As the church continued to expand, a new building was constructed in 1953 at 4418 Rainbow Boulevard, and the church was renamed Rainbow Boulevard Church of the Nazarene. This new location provided space for the congregation to continue growing and serving the surrounding community. In time, the need for additional space once again became clear. Land was purchased at 6301 Nall Avenue, where construction of the current campus began. Phase 1, which included a chapel and classrooms, was completed in 1972. During this period the congregation experienced significant growth, leading to the completion of Phase 2, a larger sanctuary, in 1979. This legacy of faith, growth, and community continues to shape the mission and ministry of Nall Naz today.

Who we are

"A Spirit-led family helping people become Christ-like disciples and share His hope with the world.

About Nall Avenue Church

Church of the Nazarene Statement of Mission

Nall Avenue Church leadership team

Dr. Branson Roberts Jr.

Lead Pastor

Antonio Monarres

Spanish Pastor

Scott

Johnson

Renee Holm

Children’s Pastor

Rebecca Rinker

Worship Pastor

Wendy Lutz-Monarres

Youth/Spanish Pastor

Randall Turner

Visitation Pastor

Randall Turner

Visitation Pastor

Pedro

Caycedo

Spanish Associate Pastor

Statement of Beliefs

Church of the Nazarene

TRINITY

SCRIPTURE

SINFUL NATURE

ETERNITY

SALVATION

SANCTIFICATION

THE HOLY SPIRIT

CHRIST'S RETURN

Core Values

A Christian People

A Holiness People

A Missional People

Nall Avenue Church history

Serving the Prarie Villiage community

About Nall Avenue Church

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