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The Church of the Nazarene is a Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism.Formed in the early 1900s in Texas, the denomination is now headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas.
The New Galilee Church of the Nazarene hosts an original passion play, "God With Us". God With Us was a ministry began in 2008 and depicts the suffering and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Originally the church held four performances, free of admission, attracting around 300 people. As of 2015, the church has 11 performances planned. [9]
The history of the Church of the Nazarene has been divided into seven overlapping periods by the staff of the Nazarene archives in Lenexa, Kansas: (1) Parent Denominations (1887–1907); (2) Consolidation (1896–1915); (3) Search for Solid Foundations (1911–1928); (4) Persistence Amid Adversity (1928–1945); (5) Mid-Century Crusade for Souls (1945–1960); (6) Toward the Post-War ...
Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma (South Central) Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville , Tennessee (Southeast) There are, in addition to the liberal arts colleges, a Bible college and a seminary :
The congregations that withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church did so because they strongly advocated abolitionism and disagreed with the church polity held by the M.E. Church. [7] The first secessions in 1841 took place in Michigan although the new church group was formalized in Utica, New York.
A number of modern churches use the word "Nazarene" or variants in their name or beliefs: The Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene), originating in the Swiss Nazarene Baptist movement; The Church of the Nazarene, a Protestant Christian denomination that was born out of the Holiness Movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries;
Nanty Glo,PA: Nanty Glo is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. ... (1922) and Church of the Nazarene (1935). In the 1920s, a Kingdom Hall of ...
William Howard Hoople. William Howard Hoople (August 6, 1868 – September 29, 1922) was an American businessman and religious figure. He was a prominent leader of the American Holiness movement; the co-founder of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, one of the antecedent groups that merged to create the Church of the Nazarene; rescue mission organizer; an ordained minister in ...