Real Life Community Church has had the same mission since its founding in Safford in 1980 - to teach believers how to live a truly Christ-like life, to serve the those in need and to care for those in need To us Jesus in the believer is the only “real life”. Galatians 2:20 There is no eternal life nor joy without Christ Jesus, and with Him there is all of life and more than the human mind can imagine!
RLCC is a Church of the Nazarene, a Christ centered, Bible-based fellowship of churches across Arizona and around the world.
We Are a Christian People
As members of the Church Universal, we join with all true believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ and in embracing the historic Trinitarian creedal statements of 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 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.
We Are 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 (a) begins in worship, (b) ministers to the world in evangelism and compassion, (c) encourages believers toward Christian maturity through discipleship, and (d) prepares women and men for Christian service through Christian higher education.
The Churches of the Nazarene are linked to local districts for partnership in work. Our District is made up of over 60 active congregations across all of Arizona and parts
of Nevada, Utah and California.
In the US and Canada there are 77 more districts like ours, 5,100 churches and 600,000 members.
In Arizona and the District Pinerock Camp a year-round conference and retreat facility designed to provide lodging, meals, and activities for groups of 20 - 385. Each group plans and carries out their own retreat while having the support of our staff to make it memorable.These include summer camps for children and youth also.
Local churches support and provide programs to meet the needs of children, families, and communities. Through partnership, local congregations are changing the world through ministries like these:
Nazarene Discipleship International to the help believers to grow in Christ and to lead others also Matthew 28:19-20
Nazarene Youth International provides programs of worship, practical Bible teaching and more for teens through young adults.
Nazarene Compassionate Ministries provide food relief in emergency situations and training and mentoring programs to help farmers find success. Whether in Ukraine, Malawi, Burundi, Armenia, Benin, Zambia, the Middle East, Sri Lanka, or beyond.