The history of the church began when the Holy Spirit of God was poured out at pentecost Through the ages, the church has had periods where it flourished and grew, times when it has been tried in the furnace of fierce opposition and times when it has nearly been suffocated by the lure of power and prominence. Yet through all the ages, the brilliant light of the “faith once delivered to the saints” has shone through the darkness. It broke out in England through a man named John Wesley, whose heart was “strangely warmed” by the gospel and subsequently purified by faith in the work of entire sanctification. We say that we have a rich Wesleyan tradition because of the systematic theology that John Wesley brought to the church, and for his emphasis on the age-old teaching of the gospel of faith working by love. This is the “perfect love” that the Apostle John wrote of in 1 John 4:18, which fully emancipates the soul from carnal self-love, casts down the idols of the heart and gives us a complete love towards God and our fellow man. This rich heritage is the ground in which The Wesleyan Nazarene church was formed.  The full effort in its formation has been to cooperate with the saints that through the ages have lived and died in separation from the world and have sought only the approval of God. It was born after much united prayer by concerned individuals who met around the throne of grace daily at a specified time for almost four months before putting together the church organization. The burden of those involved in this prayer effort was that we keep in step with the Holy Ghost and not follow the whim of man or act in a precipitous manner. Several conference calls were engaged in by these brethren as the will of God was sought. On November 7, 2008, in the Bentonville, Arkansas Public Library the name Wesleyan Nazarene was chosen and the church organization formed with a clear sense of the approbation of the Holy Spirit.