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Richland Church of the Nazarene

Richland Church of the Nazarene

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Who we are

Richland Church of the Nazarene is a life-giving church in Yukon, OK 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.

Core Values

God has given us six Core Values to work on as a local congregation, and we are working to live those, listed below,  in all we say and do. These are a complement to the Church of the Nazarene Core Values of being Christian, Holiness, and Missional people. 

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Prayer

We are called to be people of prayer, this helps us to connect with God in fresh and new ways which help us to conqueror what life throws our way. We have a need to pray each and every day because we need God's blessings to fall fresh on us every day.

Reading Scripture

We are called to be people rooted in God's Word. We need to stay connected with the Word of God that is living and active and has more encouragement for us than we could find anywhere else. Reading from Scripture every day is proven to improve our outlook on life and to help us to tackle everything that life throws our way.

Encouraging Others

We believe that we have been called to be encouragers for the people that God places in our lives. We should build each other up as we walk this road together. There is so much hate in the world that we believe the Church should have no part in it and that we should do everything we can to be an encouragement to the people in our lives. 

Living Holy Lives

God called us to be Holy because He is Holy. It is as simple as that. God created us in His image and we have to act like we know what it means to be called children of God. Does this mean that we are perfect? NO! But it does mean that we are striving to be more like Christ each and every day and that we are going to do everything that we can to follow the example that has been laid for us by the Son of God. 

Being Hope-Filled People

We believe that our Hope is Jesus, and our pastor is passionate about bringing the Hope that is Jesus to the world around us. No matter how bad your circumstances may seem, God is our hope and we are never alone and hopeless when we know Jesus! 

Being Thankful People

In the same way that we believe we always have hope because we know Jesus, we believe that we always can find something to be thankful for.  We believe that our core values of Prayer, Scripture, Encouraging Others, and Living Holy Lives, help us to truly be thankful in all circumstances! 

Richland Church of the Nazarene Statement of Mission

The mission of the Richland 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.


Richland 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.

Our Staff

Rev. Matthew D. Lowry, M.A.

Senior Pastor

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Rev. Courtney L. Lowry

Associate Pastor of Worship and Discipleship

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Rev. Joshua K. McDowell

Associate Pastor to Youth and Families

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Statement of Beliefs

Richland Church of the Nazarene

TRINITY

SCRIPTURE

SINFUL NATURE

ETERNITY

SALVATION

SANCTIFICATION

THE HOLY SPIRIT

CHRIST'S RETURN

Nazarene Denominational 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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Richland Nazarene Church history

Serving the Yukon, OK community for 77 years

Founded in 1949 on this property. The Sanctuary is the original church building that has been added on to over the years. 

About Richland Church of the Nazarene

Richland Church of the Nazarene is a Christ-centered community located in Yukon, Oklahoma, committed to helping people grow in their relationship with God and with one another. The church exists to encourage, equip, and inspire individuals and families to live out their faith daily

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