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WHO WE ARE

Welcome to Montrose Church of the Nazarene — a place where you can belong, grow, and encounter the transforming love of Jesus.


We are a community of ordinary people being shaped by an extraordinary God. Whether you’ve followed Christ for years or are just beginning to explore faith, you’ll find a church family here that is committed to walking together in grace, truth, and love.

MONTROSE CHURCH LEADERSHIP

Meet our Leadership Team

Pastor Nicole

Pastor Nicole has grown up in the Church of the Nazarene and has been shaped by a lifelong foundation of faith, service, and commitment to the local church.

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Pastor Jonathan

Pastor Jonathan has been a faithful member of the Church of the Nazarene since childhood and comes from a family with a rich legacy of service.

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STATEMENT OF MISSION

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

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. 

WHAT WE BELIEVE

As part of the global Church of the Nazarene, our beliefs are rooted in Scripture and centered on Jesus Christ.

GOD’S LOVE FOR ALL
SALVATION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST
LIFE TRANSFORMATION
HOLINESS & CHRISTLIKENESS
MAKING CHRISTLIKE DISCIPLES
SCRIPTURE AS OUR FOUNDATION
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OUR HEART AS A CHURCH

At Montrose Nazarene, we are passionate about:

 

  • Praising God – We gather to worship authentically and celebrate who God is.
  • Preparing Believers – We grow together through teaching, discipleship, and community.
  • Proclaiming the Good News – We share the hope of Jesus in our everyday lives.

THE COMMUNITY YOU'LL FIND HERE

More than anything, we want you to experience a sense of home.

Here’s what you can expect:

Genuine Relationships

A Welcoming Atmosphere

Multi-Generational Connection

A Place to Grow

A Heart for Others

CORE VALUES

A CHRISTIAN PEOPLE

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).

A HOLINESS PEOPLE

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”

A MISSIONAL PEOPLE

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.

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CHURCH HISTORY

Serving the Montrose, Lowa community for over a Century.

Montrose Church of the Nazarene has been serving the Montrose, Iowa community for over a century, faithfully sharing the hope of Christ and the message of holiness. The church was organized in 1915 as a Nazarene mission and has continued to grow and serve through generations of faithful leadership and committed members. Throughout the years, the church has remained dedicated to loving God, loving others, and making disciples both locally and beyond. Today, Montrose Church of the Nazarene continues to build on this strong foundation, seeking to be a welcoming, Christ-centered presence in the community.

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We’d love to meet you and help you get connected. Whether you’re visiting for the first time or looking for a church to call home, there’s a place for you here.

You belong here.

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