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ABOUT US

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Morrilton First Church of the Nazarene is a group of people who love to serve God in the way that His Son Jesus Christ exemplified.

 

We currently serve through discipleship, meeting people where they are in city of Morrilton and teaching them all that we have been taught.

 

We want to meet you and get to know how it is that we can serve you as well. The amazing thing about learning where spiritual needs are is that we can learn together how best to meet them.

MORNAZ CHURCH LEADERSHIP

Meet the Morrilton First Church of the Nazarene team

Gary Huffman

Senior Pastor

Reverend Gary Huffman is the Senior Pastor. Coming to Morriltion First in February of 2026, he is excited to hit the groound running and learn all he can about the community. Pastor Gary has been married to Megan since March of 2020 and they have three children between them. Pastor Gary has been an Ordained Elder in the Church of the Nazarene since June of 2025.

Jana Ledbetter

Worship Pastor

Pastor Jana Ledbetter is the Worship Pastor and Minister of Music at Morrilton First Church of the Nazarene and serves as the adult Sunday School teacher. She has been in this position since 2022. Prior to this she served for many years as the worship leader at Emmanual Church of the Nazarene in Perryville, AR. She is originally from Louisiana but moved to Arkansas in 2016. Pastor Jana enjoys playing piano, singing, listening to music, reading, travelling, and going to antique malls and flea markets. She is on the Elder track for ordination as of 2025.

STATEMENT OF MISSION

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

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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MORRILTON FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE HISTORY

Serving the Morrilton community.

Organized October 23, 1913, Morritlon First Church of the Nazarene has been faithfully serving the community and Conway County for over a century. MFCN, like all churches, has experienced in that time multiple seasons of revival. Currently, MFNC is in the beginning stages of a new revival that is going to reinvigorate the cityh of Morrilton and the surrounding area.

 

The original tenets at the founding of the church to "win the lost at all cost", "disciple and equip believers for service in the kingdom", "teach and preach the doctrine of Holiness to all", "have a compassionate ministry that involves all ages", and "have a strogner emphasis on salvatioin in our children's ministry" all still ring true today.

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