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ABOUT US

Learn about Clearlake Church of the Nazarene

The church of the Nazarene was founded when several denominations came into agreement together at Pilot Point, TX, in 1908.  We are part of the Wesleyan Holiness movement with its roots in the Azuza Street Revival of 1906.

Who We Are

The Clearlake Church of the Nazarene, located at 15917 Olympic Drive in Clearlake, CA, has been a source of God's love and teaching since we were established over fifty years ago at this location.  We have a special outreach into the community on the 5th Sunday where we have provided yard work for seniors who struggle with physical labor, we have taken prayer walks and offered prayer in Austin Park.  

 

We also partner with other churches, taking part in the recent county-wide revival, and doing service projects like the back pack give away.  We have established a deep local presence, participating actively in the community alongside regional institutions like the Clearlake Senior Center, Embrace Grace, Women’s Celebrate Recovery Step Study, Men’s Prison Ministry and providing ongoing support for the city's under-served and families through outreach programs.

Our Purpose:

Sharing the Knowledge, Power, and Love of Jesus

Grace and Truth:

Holding Fast to the Reality of Scripture
While Offering a Love that Stubbornly Refuses to Condemn.

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. 

Statement of Beliefs

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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Church Leadership

Meet the Clearlake Church of the Nazarene pastoral team.

Chris Gravesen 

Pastor and his wife Brenda

Jim Carreker 

Lay Minister - Men's Prison Ministry

Davina Pyzer 

Director of Children's Ministry

Clearlake Church History

Serving the Clearlake, CA community since 1980

The property was originally purchased in July 1963 to serve the Lake County communities, and regular worship services began in the early 1980’s once the building was complete with most of the work being done by the church members at that time.  The former pastor, Richard Bean, was here for 20 years serving the community and was the longest serving pastor to date.  Today our pastor, Chris Gravesen, and his wife Brenda have been serving the community since 2014.