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Who we are

Holt Naz is a life-giving church in Holt that is committed to a culture of love and generosity in the name of Jesus Christ. We are a community of believers who desire to know God more closely.  Holt Naz is a place to belong and a place to grow!

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We are a church for the Holt community! We love Jesus and people.

 

Together we are 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. 

 

We strive 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. Most churches find it is comfortable to stay within the walls, but we make it an effort to be like the church from the book of Acts, to see our city changed.

 

We highly value 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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Mission

Our Mission is to join with the Holy Spirit in bringing people into vibrant growing relationship with God and with fellow believers. 

Vision

 At Holt Naz we dream about seeing Holt and our surrounding community living out the Great Commandment of loving God and loving one another while actively bringing the Kingdom of God to earth through the preaching and treaching of the Word and through acts of service.

Values

 We believe discipleship is important and that discipleship happens in community as we worship, serve, and study God's word together. 

Holt Naz Leadership

Rev. Debra Mulder

Lead Pastor

Rev. Dana Farr

Associate Pastor

Rev. Matthew Farr

Associate Pastor

Statement of Beliefs

Holt Church of the Nazarene

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”

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.

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Our History

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On July 10, 1952, Rev. O.L. Maish, District Superintendent of the Michigan District Church of the Nazarene, organized the Holt Church of the Nazarene with 11 charter members.  Among these 11 were Rev. and Mrs. William Kelley. After seeking the Lord’s guidance and direction the decision was made to build Holt Church of the Nazarene, and Rev. Kelly was appointed as Pastor.  

Property was chosen for the new church which was located at Schoolcraft and Hall Roads. Plans were made to build a forty by seventy-foot church building which included a full basement.  The men of the church got to work, and before winter of 1952 the church was ready to serve those in the Holt Community. 

 

By 1976 church growth exceeded the space of the building and under the direction of Pastor Owen Underwood members prayerfully voted to look for property on which to build a larger church.  In 1977 the property at 4851 Holt Road was purchased.  In 1982, Rev. Paul Moore was elected pastor and under his leadership the church began a building program.  Not long after the church on Schoolcraft and Hall was sold, and while phase I of the building project was underway the congregation met at the former Holt Junior High School.  The church building was completed in 1984 and dedicated to the Lord on June 16, 1985.  In November 1990 the church began to discuss plans for the educational unit (phase II). On June 9, 1991 they broke ground and on August 6, 1991 construction of the education unit began.  On Sunday evening November 10, the first all church fellowship was held in the completed building and on January 19, 1992, under the direction of Rev. Tim Smith, the educational wing of the church was dedicated.

In the last 30 years our church has continued to be a light in our community and a place to grow in faith and fellowship with God and each other.  

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