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Learn about Eastside Community Church of the Nazarene

Eastside Community is a welcoming group of believers who love Jesus. 

We come together to worship, learn, fellowship, grow and serve.

We come together to worship, learn, fellowship, grow and serve. Our music and sermons are Bible-based. During our worship service we have times where you can participate by sharing, praying indiviually or with the entire congregation. We are interested in helping people develop a relationship with Jesus, not just knowing about Him. Our services help us to grow as we take advantage of the information and experiences we share. One of our goals is to minister to our neighborhood. We conduct events periodically and invite folks in order to get to know them. We are Jesus and others-centered. We invite folks to be as involved as they wish and encourage everyone to use their gifts and talents for the Kingdom. 

Eastside Nazarene Statement of Mission

The mission of Eastside is to inspire people to live for Jesus, empowered to love and serve others in our homes, neighborhood and world. 

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 Eastside Community 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. 

Statement of Beliefs

TRINITY
SCRIPTURE
SINFUL NATURE
ETERNITY
SALVATION
SANCTIFICATION
THE HOLY SPIRIT
CHRIST'S RETURN

Eastside Nazarene 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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Eastside Nazarene Leadership

Meet our pastoral team.

Nancy Piper

Pastor

Nancy has been a Christian from childhood, growing up serving in the Church. Her husband Eric is "part of the team" that leads Eastside. They have served together since their marriage in 1976. They have one adult son who lives in Florida with his family. Nancy has been ordained since 2012. She has served in various ministries of the church. She plays the piano, leads worship as well as serving as pastor. She enjoys scrapbooking, reading, entertaining, and loves to laugh. She is caring and responsive to the needs of others and is dedicated to Jesus and the Chur

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Eastside Nazarene Church History

Serving the Tullahoma, TN community.

The church began in 1999. It was physically and spiritually built by its first pastor, Roy Woods. From the beginning, ministry to the neighboring community has been its focus. The church has reached out to many people through the years. After Roy Woods retired,  Elizabeth Sparkman answered the call to pastor Eastside, serving over 10 years. Upon her retirement, Nancy Piper accepted the call to pastor the church. Through the years, many children and adults have been reached for Jesus. The church serves in the community through various programs and strives to make an impact for Jesus. The church has been an active participant on the East Tennessee Nazarene District.