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Who we are

Beacon Church of the Nazarene is a life-giving church in Evansville 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.

About Beacon Church of the Nazarene

Beacon Church of the Nazarene is a family-focused, bible centered church serving Evansville. Our heart is to serve all those who come through our doors every single week and lead them to Jesus.

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We are a Christ-centered church in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition of the Church of the Nazarene, committed to proclaiming the good news of Jesus and helping people experience the transforming power of God's grace. We believe that through faith in Him, lives are made new, hearts are healed, and people are empowered to live holy and purposeful lives by the Holy Spirit.


Our mission is to make Christlike disciples, loving God wholeheartedly, loving others genuinely, and serving our community with compassion and integrity. In our gatherings, you'll find heartfelt worship, biblically grounded teaching, and a welcoming space for individuals and families from all walks of life.


We long to see people grow in their relationship with God, walk in freedom, and discover their calling. Wherever you are on your journey, there's a place for you here to belong, believe, and become who God created you to be.

Beacon Church of the Nazarene
Statement of Mission

Our mission is to make Christlike disciples across the nations proclaiming the message of Jesus Christ, nurturing believers in their faith, and equipping them to live holy, transformed lives by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Church of the Nazarene Statement of Mission

The mission of the Church of the Nazarene is to make Christlike disciples in the nations.


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 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.

Beacon Church Leadership Team

Estephede Charles

Lead Pastor

Statement of Beliefs

Beacon 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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Beacon Church of the Nazarene History

Serving the Evansville community for six years

Our church was born in 2019 through the vision of Brother James Robert Benoit (Bob), who began gathering believers within the local Faith Church of the Nazarene under Pastor Cathy West. In January 2020, Pastor Estephede Charles stepped into leadership, advancing the mission with a deep commitment to Christ-centered teaching and spiritual growth. Since then, we have grown into a community devoted to sharing the message of Jesus, making disciples, and impacting lives locally and beyond.

About Beacon Church of the Nazarene

Beacon Church of the Nazarene is a family-focused, bible centered church serving Evansville. Our heart is to serve all those who come through our doors every single week and lead them to Jesus.

Plan a Visit