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The Church of the Nazarene

Denomination·Founded 1908 CE·est. 2,724,006 members in 30,747 congregations across 165 world areas, from the denomination's own reporting. Growth is almost entirely outside the United States and Canada — the Africa and Asia-Pacific regions have expanded while the American membership has been flat or declining for two decades.

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →

P Phineas Bresee — who left a comfortable pulpit to start a mission for the poor. A Methodist presiding elder in Los Angeles who resigned in 1894 when the conference would not appoint him to a rescue mission, and started his own the next year in a rented hall, deliberately plain. He wanted the church of the poor, and he wrote it into the founding purpose. Domain Holiness preaching, the church of the poor, the founding of the Los Angeles workStanding Founder rather than saint; the Nazarenes cite Wesley above him Meet them — context →