A History of Nazarene Youth International
(from inception through 2004)

(Excerpt) Youth Ministry in the Church of the Nazarene began in the very first Church of the Nazarene founded in 1895 by Phineas Bresee in Los Angeles, California.  Eventually, Bresee’s church would be the mother church to other Nazarene churches, and ultimately, be influential in the convergence of other holiness churches to become the denomination known as The Church of the Nazarene. Youth ministry was part of that emerging story...

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