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Cottontown Church seeks the lost, the prodigals, the back sliders, the overlooked, and invites them to belong to a loving and accepting community where they can be seen and valued. As Jesus loves all His children just the way we are, and so much that He will not leave them that way, so does Cottontown Church love. The ground is level at the foot of the cross for all, and the tomb is empty for all who want to live the resurrected life of Jesus here and now on earth.

COTTONTOWN CHURCH LEADERSHIP

Meet the Cottontown Church Team

Pastor Dan

Lead Pastor

Pastor Dan is a Physical Therapist with over 30 years of experience who answered God’s call to ministry in 2020. In early 2026, he stepped into his role as Lead Pastor of Cottontown Church, faithfully following God’s leading to plant a new church in the community. Prior to that, he served co-vocationally from 2021–2026 as Associate Pastor and Young Adults Pastor at PNC, where he invested deeply in people—discipling new believers, developing leaders, organizing mission teams and outreach events, supporting church leadership, and preaching regularly. Dan holds an MA in Pastoral and Ministerial Leadership from Northwest Nazarene University (2022), complementing his extensive background in physical therapy. He is passionate about walking alongside others in their faith journey and building authentic, Christ-centered relationships. Dan and his wife Jane, married since 1991, are partners in both life and ministry. Jane is a licensed professional counselor who shares Dan’s heart for serving others. Together, they enjoy hiking, singing, and pouring into their two married children, their spouses, and their beloved rescue dog, Mickey—all while seeking to faithfully live out their calling in community

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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COTTONTOWN CHURCH HISTORY

Serving the Cottontown community.

Cottontown Church is just getting started, and we believe the best is yet to come. Since our formation teams began on April 8, 2026, we’ve been prayerfully building launch teams, developing leaders, and discerning together how to walk out God’s vision and mission for His Church in our wonderful community.

 

This is an exciting ground-floor moment—where faith is stretching, relationships are forming, and God is moving in fresh ways. There’s a place for you here. Whether you’re exploring faith, looking for community, or ready to serve, we invite you to be part of what God is building in Cottontown. Come grow with us, use your gifts, and help shape a church rooted in Jesus and committed to making a lasting impact.

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