Our Leadership
- District Superintendent: Rev. George Leonce
- District Secretary: Rev. Milton Haripaul
- District Treasurer: Mr. Lyndon Thomas
- District Chairperson Sunday School Ministries:
Ms. Hazel O'Garro - Vice S.S Chairperson: Ms. Stefrine Durrant
- District N.M.I President: Mrs. Lucy Joseph
- District N.Y.I president: Mr. Kirby Sidney
About Us
The Church of the Nazarene is a Great Commission church. We believe that God offers to everyone forgiveness, peace, joy, purpose, love, meaning in life and the promise of heaven when life is over by entering and experiencing a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. We are called to take this message to people everywhere.
The Church of the Nazarene is also a holiness church. We believe that Christians can experience a deeper level of life in which there is victory over sin, power to witness and serve, and a richer fellowship with God, all through the infilling of the Holy Spirit.
Celebrating 100 Years!
The Church of the Nazarene is a global family. Each Nazarene in 151 world areas deserves to attend the celebration of our Centennial. For this reason, on October 5, 2008, the Centennial Celebration will take place across 24 time zones in every local church.
From the Hallelujah March around the Pilot Point tent in 1908 to almost 21,000 local churches today, the Church of the Nazarene has grown in ways that no single tent, sanctuary, or even coliseum could now hold the gathering of our entire church.
Yet how thrilling it will be to sense the bonds of a growing Nazarene family in this Centennial Celebration as we unite in cultural diversity around common worship content, each pastor knowing that almost 21,000 fellow pastors are standing before their congregations that day to proclaim the same message, scripture, and theme.
The Centennial Sunday allows us to celebrate our Nazarene doctrine, core values, heritage, and mission. To assist pastors in proclaiming our message and mission that day, extensive Centennial Celebration resources have been developed for each local church.
The Centennial Celebration local church in English includes a Leader's Guide with complete resources for the Sunday morning worship service, providing for cultural adaptation, but allowing Nazarenes around the world to share a common framework of sermon, scriptures, music, media, and rituals. A wide array of additional resources will lead up to the Centennial Sunday.
The Centennial Celebrations of the Church of the Nazarene took off with great pomp and pride in the islands forming the Windward Islands District in the Eastern Caribbean. The district is made up of eight churches on the islands of Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and St. Lucia.
As a build-up to the celebrations local radio and television stations were used to spread the message that the COTN was moving on and getting ready to impact the nations afresh with the truth that God is calling all of his people to live holy lives.
On Sunday October 5, Centennial Sunday:
The St. Vincent Zone held a grand rally with all four churches at the Arnos Vale Church of the Nazarene. Several members were honored during the service which was broadcast live on national radio. The celebrations did not end there however, because a centennial dinner has been planned for mid November.
Grenada’s lone church had a communion service followed by lunch, and the highlighting of the outstanding work of members. There too, plans are afoot to continue the celebrations in December with the reception of new members and the presentation of the heritage award to one of the faithful and longstanding members.
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In St. Lucia the three churches held separate services in the morning during which members were received, communion was served and heritage awards were presented to seven members who had been pioneers of the work on the island.
In the afternoon, there was a motorcade where members and friends from the three churches joined forces to drive through the various communities proclaiming the gospel and the fact that the church was celebrating 100 years as a denomination. This created quite an impact as the motorcade snaked its way with police outriders and loudspeakers proclaiming that the Nazarenes were on the move.
The motorcade ended at the Wilvin Clarke Memorial Church of the Nazarene in Castries where a joint celebration service highlighted the work of the denomination on the island and once again the centennial awardees were acknowledged. Special guest speakers from our sister churches brought fraternal greetings and Parliamentarians also expressed appreciation for the impact of the church on the community.
The evening ended with an exhortation by Pastor Milton Haripaul, challenging the church to prepare for the next centennial. He pointed out that the core values of the church cannot be ignored if we want to maintain our position as a holiness people, in preparing for the next century of growth.
Windward Islands Assist In Haiti Well Project
The Windward Islands district of the Church of the Nazarene has defied the current global financial crisis by raising US$1000.00 to help fund a well digging project for the impoverished people in Haiti. The challenge had been issued by the NMI General Council in 2008 for believers in other parts of the world to assist their brothers and sisters on the struggling Caribbean nation because of a severe drought on the island which has not had proper drinking water in most areas of the country for many years.
The situation has been generated by the rampant cutting down of trees all over the island, and very low rainfall, to the extent that the land now looks dry and barren. People are often forced to walk many miles to get a little drinking water, and even then that water is far from sanitary. This has left Haitians open to many communicable diseases, and many children die before reaching puberty.
The amount collected was announced at the 31st. District Assembly which took place in Castries, St. Lucia on Friday April 17, 2009, and a cheque was presented to Rev. Leonce on behalf of the district for onward transmission to Haiti via the Regional Office in Miami.
In 2008 as well, District Superintendent Rev. George N. Leonce had challenged the churches on the district to come to the assistance of Haitians who were undergoing severe hardships because of a series of hurricanes which had devastated the nation, which has earned the sobriquet ‘The poorest country in the western hemisphere’.
The four back to back hurricanes destroyed houses and churches, roads, bridges and farms – in effect, the very livelihood of the people. The churches responded quickly and raised US$576.00 to assist the hurricane relief effort.
Rev. Leonce expressed gratitude to the churches for ignoring their own dire circumstances to assist others in need.