Who we are

Information about Mountain View and the National Nazarene organizations.

About Mountain View Church of the Nazarene

We are part of the global Church of the Nazarene, rooted in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition, and we believe in a life transformed by God’s grace and lived out through love, service, and discipleship.

Mountain View Church of the Nazarene in Wilder, Idaho is a welcoming church family committed to helping people know Jesus Christ and grow in their faith. Our heart is captured in a simple desire—that everyone who walks through our doors would come to know Jesus personally and find a place they can truly call home.

We believe that church is more than a place to attend—it’s a community where people of all ages can belong, build meaningful relationships, and grow spiritually. Through worship services, ministries for every stage of life, and opportunities to serve, we strive to support both the spiritual and everyday needs of individuals and families.

 

As part of the global Church of the Nazarene, we are rooted in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition, emphasizing a life transformed by God’s grace and lived out in love for others.

Statement of Mission

To know Christ, share His love and make Him known to others.

Statement of Vision

Share God’s Word

Help others know Christ

Accept the mission

Reach to the future

Every convert discipled

Statement of Core Goals

• To WORSHIP the living God and lift up the name of Jesus.

• To LEAD others to Christ and to the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

• To DISCOVER God’s will for our lives through sermons and other Biblical teaching.

 To DEMONSTRATE God’s love by meeting real and felt needs in our community.

• To FELLOWSHIP and show others we care, especially newcomers.

• To PRAY without ceasing.

Our Staff

Mike Curry

Senior Pastor

MVC Gray Logo 2 Mountain View Church of the Nazarene Church in Wilder, ID

Jevan Thomas

Youth Pastor

Carri Gelskey

Office Administrator

Quincy Williams

 Children’s Pastor

Statement of Beliefs

Mountain View Church of the Nazarene

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

Core Values

We are 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).

We are 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”

We are 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.

Mountain View Nazarene History

Serving the rural communities of Idaho in Homedale and Wilder.

Local

Produced in 2003 this video details the history of Homedale Mountain View Church of the Nazarene. The church continues today with the same philosophy of reaching the community and the world for Christ.

We are a Global Church!

Here are links to the global, national, and regional organizations within the Church of the Nazarene: