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Newport Church of the Nazarene is a community of believers. What does that mean, the word community? We believe that together in fellowship we grow closer to God and one another. The bible speaks about iron sharpening iron. We believe that together we grow stronger. We are a community of believers. 

 

Newport Church of the Nazarene strives to be a church without walls. Jesus calls for us to go outside the walls to reach the lost and the broken. It is there that the lost will be found. Newport Church of the Nazarene makes an effort to be like the church from the book of Acts, to see our city changed.

 

Newport Church of the Nazarene highly values our relationships with one another. We look to grow through fellowship, and ultimately growing closer to God. We value the word of God, and the leadership of the Holy Spirit. We look to extend grace to all of the lost and broken, and lead those with no hope to the hope of Jesus Christ.

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NEWPORT CHURCH LEADERSHIP

Meet the Newport Church Team

John Hale

Lead Pastor

Pastor John was appointed the pastor of Newport Church of the Nazarene on July 27, 2015.  He is passionate about preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ and seeing lives transformed by the grace of God.  He answered the call of God on his life in April of 2003.  He has also served the Church of the Nazarene as a youth pastor, associate pastor, and discipleship pastor.  In addition, to his pastoral and preaching ministries, Pastor John considers it a privilege to work with the youth ministry at the Church.  He and his wife Melinda are happy to make their home in Newport.  He is a proud dad to Hunter and papa to Mason.

Larry Davis

Associate/Discipleship Pastor

Pastor Larry serves as Associate/Discipleship Pastor which involves overseeing our Sunday School, Men’s and Women’s Ministries and all of our other outreach programs. He has served in this position for several years here in Newport and in Church Hill in previous years. Larry has a desire to serve in all aspects of ministry and to help grow God’s Kingdom. Please reach out to Larry for any thoughts about Sunday School and Discipleship Ministries. Larry and wife Carrie have one daughter ,Meghan and love the Newport Community.

Melinda Hale

Children's Ministry Director

Melinda serves as our SOAR Children’s Ministries Director.  She has served in children’s ministry since 1992 when she was asked to “help” in a Sunday School class.  That is when her love for children and showing them God’s love truly began.  Melinda currently also serves as the District Children’s Ministries Director and has served, along with her husband, as the coordinator for the District Children’s camp for the last eight years.  She enjoys being a pastors wife and along with her husband they have one son Hunter, a daughter-in-love Jaden and two grandchildren.

Jim & Cherry Newsome

Prayer Ministry Leaders

Jim and Cheryl head up our prayer chain communications and maintain our weekly prayer list and monthly prayer calendar.  Brother Jim is a retired Pastor from the Cincinnati, Ohio area. 

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. 

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STATEMENT OF BELIEFS

TRINITY

SCRIPTURE

SINFUL NATURE

ETERNITY

SALVATION

SANCTIFICATION

THE HOLY SPIRIT

CHRIST'S RETURN

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”

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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.

NAZARENE CHURCH HISTORY

Serving the Newport Community for 15 years

About Mission Newport Church of the Nazarene Church in Newport, TN

Newport Church of the Nazarene was officially organized on June 7, 1945 by a small group of families who initially met in homes. The congregation built its first church building in 1947, then relocated to NW 12th Street as it grew, dedicating a new facility in 1960. Continued growth led to additional classrooms, a gym, and fellowship spaces in 1974, with the current sanctuary completed in 1979.

 

Throughout its history, the church has placed a strong emphasis on family ministry, education, and spiritual formation, providing programs for children, youth, and adults. For a time, the church also housed Yaquina Christian School, reflecting its commitment to Christian education and community investment.

 

The church has also developed a deep missions and outreach focus, sending numerous Work & Witness teams to serve both locally and internationally. Today, Newport Church of the Nazarene continues to serve the community with a renewed vision centered on encountering God, growing in faith, discovering purpose, and making a meaningful difference in the lives of others.

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