About the Church

Come Worship With Us

Main Service
English Speaking Congregation:
10.00 am – 12.30pm

French Service: 8.00am – 10.00am

Amharic: 2:00pm – 4.00pm

Sunday School: 11.00am – 12.00noon

Refreshments: 1Pm – 2pm

At NCCON, we love it when we grow together. Join us in our weekly activities for the following:
1. Prayer session every Tuesday from 4:30pm-6:30pm
2. Cell groups (Periodic Family Visitations):

OUR HISTORY

THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

Nairobi Central Church of the Nazarene is a member of the bigger family of churches of Nazarene worldwide. The Church of the Nazarene is a Protestant Christian Church in the Wesleyan Holiness tradition. The Church was organized in 1908. Official membership is about 2.5 million worshipping in more than 29000 local congregations in 162 world areas proximately 74.1% of all Nazarenes live outside the United States of America.
The Church of the Nazarene has worked for over 100 years in Africa and is currently represented in over 54 Africa Nations including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Zambia, Burundi, Namibia, Swaziland, South Africa, Egypt, Botswana, Malawi, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Lesotho, Benin, Cote D’Ivoire, Togo, Madagascar, Eritrea, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Reunion, Bukina Faso, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone among others. In addition to the work in these countries, the Church of the Nazarene has long been involved in relief work in Ethiopia and Sudan under a joint inter-denominational organization. The Church began to work in Kenya in 1985.

NAIROBI CENTRAL CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE (NCCON)

In 1985, missionary Harmon Schmelzenbach came to Kenya to explore opportunities for Church planting. He had already met two Kenyan families. The families of John Marangu and Leonard Mboke were instrumental in helping Harmon to settle in Nairobi.
Harmon began by inviting a few families to a house fellowship which finally grew to a church – Nairobi Central Church of the Nazarene. In 1986, he helped constitute the first Church board composed of John and Leah Marangu, Cornelius Muthuri, Apollo Nyabola, William Abuonji and Rose Olang’ . Because of Harmon’ s commitment to planting churches within the country, he invited David Holmes to be the pastor of Central Church. David handed over to Rev. Don Messer who pastured the church from 1989 until 1992. Rev. Lynn Burkhart took over from 1993 to mid-1996. Between then and 1998, the church went through a transition of supply pastors who included Rev. Julius Njuki (deceased), Pst. Harris Lemuel and Rev. Dr. Darryl Stanton. In 1998 Rev. Everest Tustin took over as pastor and served until the year 2000. Rev. Everest Tustin then went back home and Pst. Richard Ouko became pastor from 2001-2002.
Between 2003 and 2005 the church again had two supply pastors. They included Rev. Paul Mtambo (2003-2005), and Rev. Dr. Rodney Reed (2005-2006). In 2006, Rev. Fredrick Amolo took over as senior pastor. He pastored the church until the year 2011 when he was reassigned as a member of faculty of Africa Nazarene University. Rev. Fredrick Opondo who was then his immediate assistant was appointed by the then District Superintendent Rev. Gerphas Oure (deceased) to pastor the church in an interim capacity for two years. At the expiry of the appointment in 2014, the church elected Rev. Fredrick Opondo as the Senior Pastor.

In 2023, Rev. Kennedy Okoth became the supply pastor upto 2023 June. Dr. Patrick M. Kamau was appointed as the Senior Pastor for 2 years up to date. Since then the Church has had five senior pastors.
Rev. Harmon and other missionaries helped to raise funds to acquire the land and put up buildings at the Church. The church has also been a beneficiary of tireless efforts and sacrifice of the Work and Witness teams.
Currently, the Nairobi Central Church of the Nazarene has two preaching points namely:
Uaamani with Rev. James Nyabola and Kibera.