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WHO WE ARE

Greencastle Church of the Nazarene is a Christ-centered community committed to helping people encounter Jesus and grow in lifelong transformation. We exist to love God wholeheartedly, love people authentically, and live out the hope of the Gospel in our homes and throughout our community. Our worship blends meaningful hymns and contemporary expressions, our teaching is rooted deeply in Scripture, and our heart is focused on holiness — not just believing in Jesus, but becoming more like Him. We are passionate about discipleship through small groups, serving through ministry teams, investing in the next generation through CastleKidz and NYI, and reaching beyond our walls through compassionate outreach. Whether you are exploring faith, returning to church, or ready to grow deeper, you will find a church family here that values real relationships, prayer, and spiritual growth. At Greencastle Church of the Nazarene, we believe God is still changing lives — and we would love for you to be part of what He is doing.

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LEADERSHIP

Meet the Greencastle Church of the Nazarene team

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Pastor Phil Diaz

Lead Pastor

Pastor Phil serves as Lead Pastor of Greencastle Church of the Nazarene with a heart for preaching God’s Word clearly and calling people to a life of holiness and...

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Pastor Amanda Highsmith

Pastor of Technology

Pastor Amanda serves behind the scenes as Pastor of Technology, helping lead the church’s digital presence and communications.

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Myrna Scheuermann

Administrative Director

Myrna serves as Administrative Director and oversees the day-to-day operations of the church office. She manages administrative responsibilities...

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CHURCH BOARD LEADERSHIP

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Lora Wood

Church Board Secretary

Lora serves as Board Secretary, faithfully recording and maintaining church business matters while supporting leadership in organizational oversight.

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Billy Laybourne

Head Trustee

Billy leads the Trustee team, helping oversee the care, maintenance, and stewardship of church property and facilities.

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Teresa DeHaven

Head Steward

Teresa leads the Steward team by guiding and coordinating efforts to serve the church through monthly communion, organizing church meals and events, and encouraging Christlike service as the hands and feet of Jesus in our community.

TRUSTEES

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Harry DeHaven

The Trustees assist in caring for church property, facilities, and maintenance matters to ensure a safe and welcoming environment for ministry.

Jay O’Neal

The Trustees assist in caring for church property, facilities, and maintenance matters to ensure a safe and welcoming environment for ministry.

STEWARDS

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Jeremy Elwell

The Stewards support the financial integrity and operational functions of the church in alignment with church leadership.

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Wendy Westfall

The Stewards support the financial integrity and operational functions of the church in alignment with church leadership.

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Carol Jones

NDI President (Nazarene Discipleship International)

Carol helps lead discipleship ministries, supporting spiritual growth through Sunday School, small groups, and Christian education opportunities for all ages.

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Roger Jones

NMI President (Nazarene Missions International)

Roger leads the church’s missions emphasis, encouraging global and local outreach, prayer support, and participation in mission efforts.

STATEMENT OF MISSION

GREENCASTLE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

The mission of the Greencastle 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. 

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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”

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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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GREENCASTLE NAZARENE HISTORY

Serving the Greencastle Indiana community.

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Greencastle Church of the Nazarene was organized on October 7, 1917, with 36 charter members following a revival meeting held under a tent in Greencastle. From worshiping above a downtown drug store to purchasing and remodeling multiple facilities, the church steadily grew through faithful leadership, sacrificial giving, and a deep commitment to reaching the community. During the Great Depression, the church served Thanksgiving meals to hungry children, and in the mid-1900s it became known for its vibrant Sunday School ministry and bus outreach that welcomed hundreds of children each week. Through building expansions, parsonage developments, and relocation to Round Barn Road in 1979, the congregation continued to invest in the future of ministry. The church has weathered seasons of challenge, including tornado damage, yet celebrated milestones such as becoming debt free in 1991 and again in 2008. For more than a century, God has faithfully sustained this church — and His work continues today as we seek to love God, serve our community, and lead people to life transformation in Christ.

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