First Church of the Nazarene
First Church of the Nazarene is a Nazarene church at 1900 Locust Street in Las Cruces, NM 88011. It is one of 165 churches in Las Cruces, and one of 2 Nazarene congregations in the city.
Serving since 2026 · Services in Spanish and Portuguese
1900 Locust Street, Las Cruces, NM, 88011Phone: (575) 522-7120 · Website: https://nazarene.org/
First Church of the Nazarene is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 33 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across New Mexico — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
Ministries at First Church of the Nazarene
- Global Missions
- Compassionate Ministries
- Evangelism
- Education
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The community around First Church of the Nazarene
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 42.9%
- Food Insecurity: 31.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Child Poverty: 31.2% (11.4–51.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
- Obesity: 36.9%
- Depression: 26.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Las Cruces city is served by 96 churches — about one congregation for every 981 residents.
Churches near First Church of the Nazarene
- University United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Journey Church — 0.1 mi away
- Vino Nuevo Las Cruces — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Peace Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Wesly Student Center — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity on the Rio Grande Anglican Church — 0.3 mi away
- Movement Church — 0.4 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Spanish Church of the Nazarene — 1.9 mi away
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