NAZARENE

The driving force in the lives of early Nazarenes, and of Nazarenes today, is a sense of mission to spread scriptural holiness. In the early 1900's (1905 or 1906) a Holiness Camp Meeting was held in Sag Harbor, NY. From this camp meeting a Holiness Mission started in Patchogue. H. N. Brown, pastor of the Bedford Avenue Church in Brooklyn attended that camp meeting in Sag Harbor. Another man who attended that meeting was C. A. Reney who served as pastor of our church from 1914-1921. C.A. Reney and H.N. Brown also attended a meeting in Chicago in 1907 when C.W. Ruth, assistant general superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene, brought other holiness groups, along with the Church of the Nazarene, into association with each other. At a second General Assembly on October 13, 1908 our denomination was officially founded as the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene. (In 1919 the name was officially changed to The Church of the Nazarene because of new meanings that had become associated with..

Primary location: Patchogue United States