Church in Corona, CA Logo04 Canyon Community Church of the Nazarene
Church in Corona, CA Logo04 Canyon Community Church of the Nazarene

Who we are

Canyon Community Church is a life-giving church in Canyon Community Church 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.

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Corona Church is a part of the Church of the Nazarene.  The Church of the Nazarene is the largest denomination in the classical Wesleyan-Holiness tradition.  

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The doctrine that distinguishes the Church of the Nazarene and other Wesleyan Denominations is that of entire sanctification.  Nazarene believe that God calls Christians to a life of holy living that is marked by an act of God, cleansing the heart from original sin and filling the individual with love for God and humankind.

 

We believe God’s grace doesn’t just forgive us - it transforms us.  Rooted in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition, we walk together as God cleanses our hearts, fills us with His love, and empowers us to live holy and compassionate lives.  This is nurtured through Christ-centered worship, practical Bible teaching, prayer, and authentic relationships. In the daily life of our church, we grow through small groups, serve side by side, invest in our children and students, and care for one another in meaningful ways.  Our desire is to be a church where grace is lived out and lives are continually shaped by God’s love.

Canyon Community Church of the Nazarene Statement of Mission

Our mission is to lead every generation into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ, so all may experience God’s transforming grace. As a blended family of faith, we cultivate Christlikeness, pursue God-inspired vision, give generously of our lives as we go into our commuity and world, and build bridges of hospitality and love so that all feel respected and valued as well as invited to experience God’s goodness and grace.

Canyon Community Church leadership team

Rev. Dr. Thomas Taylor

Senior Pastor

Pastorates: Nazarene Churches in Park Hills, MO; Arnold, MO; Apple Valley, CA for 31 years. 

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Rev. Connie Rench

Staff Minister

She has served over thirty years as a pastor's wife in Los Angeles, CA; Kansas City, MO; Hawaii; 

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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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Canyon Community Church history

Serving the Corona, CA community for many years

  1. Corona was organized in 1964 in Norco, CA.
  2. Transitioned to Corona to a new building in 1986.
  3. Presently restarting beginning in 2024. Rev. Taylor is the 10th pastor.

About Canyon CommunityChurch

Canyon Community Church is a family-focused, bible centered church serving Corona, CA. Our heart is to serve all those who come through our doors every single week and lead them to Jesus.

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