Our vision
…is to create healthy, multiplying churches across Northwest Indiana.
Our mission
…is to connect church planters with sponsoring churches, to encourage and equip them to plant self-supporting, multiplying congregations.
Our goal
…is to plant one church per year for the next 20 years in Northwest Indiana.
Who We Are
We are the Mission Development Board (the church planting team) of the Northwest Indiana District of the Church of the Nazarene. We are part of a 100-year-old tradition of reaching out to people who are being missed by existing churches. From our beginnings in a Los Angeles mission to the churches being planted today, we are giving our full energy and attention to the work of reaching people with the Good News of Jesus Christ.
The Church of the Nazarene exists to make Christ-like disciples in the nations. To learn more about the Church of the Nazarene in Northwest Indiana, see www.nwinazarene.org. To learn more about the Church of the Nazarene around the world, see www.nazarene.org.
What We Believe
These are the beliefs Nazarenes hold to be true:
- We believe in one God-the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- We believe that the Old and New Testament Scriptures, given by plenary inspiration, contain all truth necessary to faith and Christian living.
- We believe that man is born with a fallen nature, and is, therefore, inclined to evil, and that continually.
- We believe that the finally impenitent are hopelessly and eternally lost.
- We believe that the atonement through Jesus Christ is for the whole human race; and that whosoever repents and believes on the Lord Jesus Christ is justified and regenerated and saved from the dominion of sin.
- We believe that believers are to be sanctified wholly, subsequent to regeneration, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
- We believe that the Holy Spirit bears witness to the new birth, and also to the entire sanctification of believers.
- We believe that our Lord will return, the dead will be raised, and the final judgment will take place.