The Church of the Nazarene entered the Windward Islands through open doors on the Island of St. Lucia. 
The story of the Windward Islands District is a story of international involvement by citizens of the United States of America and Caribbean personnel. The Nazarene believers in Barbados had been thinking for a long time to go to St. Lucia with the Gospel of Christ for a very long time (for the Nazarene church entered Barbados in 1926), but for one reason or the other, it was not until 1970 that the idea of coming to St. Lucia with the gospel of Salvation by faith was seriously considered. It took the vision of the then missionary Rev. Samuel Taylor who was the Mission Director of the Caribbean. He began exploring the possibility of establishing the Church of the Nazarene in St. Lucia on one of his visits to the island in 1972. There, he met one of his former members from Guyana in the person of Sister Rita Brown, who had returned home to her native country after twenty years. The old acquaintances were renewed. The possibility of the Church of the Nazarene coming to St. Lucia was great news to Sister Brown, for she had been praying that her church would come to St. Lucia. In the interim she had been conducting Sunday school in her home on Victoria Street, for her children and other children in the community. This was the beginning of the Church of the Nazarene in St. Lucia. 

In 1973 and 1974 Rev. Wilvin Clarke and Rev. George Leonce who were students at CNC (C.N.T.C. at that time) were sent to St. Lucia with Youth in Mission teams from the United States. Between the months of July and August the teams conducted Vacation Bible School (VBS), and Sunday school classes for both young and old. 

In 1974 Rev. Gene Smith and family were transferred from Haiti to pioneer the new work in St. Lucia. The Smiths were now the resident missionaries. Rev. Samuel Taylor had already located land in the Waterworks Road area to be purchased for a sanctuary and this process was finalized by Rev. Smith. The Barbados Nazarene District raised special offerings for this new area, and for a short while it was called the St. Lucia/Barbados District. Rev. Clyde Greenidge the then District Superintendent for Barbados visited the new mission field.

A work and Witness team from Michigan District in the USA came and renovated an old soap factory located on the acquired property into a place for worship.
In 1974 Ministers Robert (Bob) and Ina Ashley were transferred from Belize to St. Lucia to establish the Windward Islands District.  Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia were set apart as a Pioneer Area by the Department of World Mission 1975 while Rev. Gene Smith went to Martinique to establish the French Antilles District. 
On February 1st 1976, The Castries Church of the Nazarene was organized, with Pastor Wilvin Clarke from Barbados as the pastor of the first organized Nazarene Church in the Windward Islands District.
The first members of this new District were: 
George N. Leonce                                          
Lynne Leonce
Rita Brown
Emmanuel Mederick
Victor Price
Fred Auguste
Augustus Sealy
Christine Joseph
Cathy Smith
Wendy Smith
Malcolm Lewis
The following ministers have served as pastor of the Castries Church of the Nazarene

1. Rev. Wilvin Clark (1976) , first pastor, (returned in 1985- 2000)
2. Rev. Clifford Warner (1976)
3. Rev. George N. Leonce ( 1976-79)
4. Geoffrey Allen  (1980)
5. David Holder  (1981 – 1982)
6. Augustus Sealy  (Intern student -3 months 1982)
7. Fred Auguste  (Intern student – 3 months 1982)
8. Benito Renelus ( 1983 – 1985)
9. Rev. George Leonce (2001 -          )

Pastor George and Lynne Leonce were pioneering our second work in the south of the island in the village of Micoud.

The Gros-Islet work was launched in 1986 by Rev. Clifford Warner from Antigua who was the pastor of the Castries congregation. This Congregation met at the home of the Sealy’s for a number of years.

The Grand Riviere work was pioneered   Warner and ?

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