Church Anniversary Theme is also Pastor Anniversary Theme:

Here is some history describing the beginning of my ministry career. This coming Sunday Blue Springs First Church will celebrate their 35th church anniversary.

In 1970 two seminarian couples saw a vision for Blue Springs to have a church of the Nazarene. Blue Springs was just beginning to grow. The population at that time was approximately 6,000. (It is now estimated at 50,000.) Paul and Aleta Slater along with Bob and Marge Pulkinen began holding services in the basement of the Masonic Lodge Building on Main Street. They met on Sunday afternoons at 3:00pm to enable some of the members of Independence First Church to attend the services and support this new ministry.


Realizing that they needed to start having regular services if they were going to gain community support, they began having services on Sunday Morning, Sunday Evening and Wednesday Evening. Several families were led by the Lord to attend this new church and thus began a close knit congregation whose goal was for Blue Springs First Church of the Nazarene to touch the lives of the people in this community.


On November 29, 1970, Dr. Wilson Lampher, District Superintendent, organized the Blue Springs First Church of the Nazarene. The charter members were Paul and Aleta Slater, Marge and Bob Pulkinen, Bob and Sharon Henderson, Willard, Mabel and Donna Parker (Thompson).


The church grew and the Lord opened up an opportunity to purchase and existing church building. On March 16, 1972 the congregation no longer needed to meet in the basement of a Lodge Building but could worship in its own facility.


In 2004 the current facility on Walnut was purchased from a Methodist congregation. The vision for reaching the lost was renewed and the church began to grow."

Onward with purpose,

Chaplain Paul Slater