History

A Brief History of Nanaimo Church of the Nazarene

In 1955 Rev. C.M. Mordon and his wife Rev. Kathleen were commissioned to plant a Nazarene church in Nanaimo. Initially the historic Beban House was rented. A Sunday School was started the first Sunday of December 1955, with ten in attendance, growing to twenty-seven the next week. By the end of the month the church was desperate for space and leaders!

In July 1957 construction of a church building began on Moyse Crescent. The church was formally organized on December 1st of that same year, and the building completed September 1958.
In 2004 the Moyse Crescent building was sold and rental space was secured at Mount Benson Funeral Chapel on Wallace Street where services could be held in the chapel and an office located in the building. In 2007 the minister and congregation of St. James Anglican invited the Nazarene church to worship in their facility. Both congregations benefited from the ecclesial interaction. On April 30, 2013 the Nazarene congregation took ownership of the facility after the St. James congregation merged with another nearby Anglican church.
Today a congregation of over 100 gathers with great joy, and a sense of reverent awe to God who brought us to this home on Departure Bay Rd. We pray that we may continue to be good stewards of what God has entrusted to our care, to the glory of God and the salvation of our city.