In-depth studies
Scheduled as interest gathers
Reading at home, a workbook, honest conversation, and assignments between meetings. These classes build week on week — if you miss one, catching up matters before the group moves on together.
Discipleship
Growing as followers of Jesus
At Nikiski Church of the Nazarene, we believe God desires to be in relationship with everyone.
We have freedom as we receive forgiveness through Jesus Christ. Our lives are transformed as we surrender to the guiding and leading of the Holy Spirit.
Our discipleship ministries provide opportunities — as individuals, as families, and as a church — to become more passionate followers of Jesus, grow in our faith, and experience a deeper wholeness in Christ.
Adult discipleship at Nikiski runs like a path: it starts at a dinner table, and for some it leads all the way into ministry. Step on wherever you are.
Family Dinner
Dinner first. Come eat with us, even if you can't stay for what follows.
- When
- Wednesdays · 6:00-6:30 PM
Adult Discipleship Gathering
A come-and-go table. Topics change through the semester, and stepping in mid-stream works fine — miss a few weeks and you can pick right back up.
Currently: Winning the War in Your Mind
- When
- Wednesdays · 6:30-7:45 PM
Classes
Practicing the Way
Eight Sunday mornings around a table... learning to be with Jesus, become like him, and do as he did.
Sundays 9:30-10:30 AM · September 13 - November 8 (no class October 25)
Winning the War in Your Mind
Four Wednesday nights on taking our thoughts captive — because the way you think shapes the way you live.
Wednesdays 6:30–7:45 PM · Family Dinner at 6:00
Classes that go deeper
Alongside Wednesday nights, we offer periodic classes for those ready to commit to more. These run at different times during the week as interest gathers, and they ask more of you than a Wednesday does.
Anything currently open for signup appears below under Coming up — but you do not have to wait for one to be scheduled to say you are interested.
Membership & baptism classes
Offered through the year, as the desire and need arise
Membership classes cover the Church of the Nazarene, our local church, and our mission. Baptism classes run alongside them for anyone ready to take that step.
Pathways into ministry
Certificate of Lay Ministry
Some in our church family sense a call to deeper discipleship through service and ministry — without a call to vocational pastoral ministry. For them, we walk through the Certificate of Lay Ministry in partnership with Discipleship Place. It's built on six required module-based classes, with electives for those who want to keep going. If that stirring sounds familiar, start with a conversation with Pastor Jason.
A call to vocational ministry
Sometimes the call is distinct: toward vocational pastoral or preaching ministry. In the Church of the Nazarene, that's a multi-year journey walked together with the local church and the Alaska District — and there's more than one road through it. Some pursue accredited studies through Northwest Nazarene University or Nazarene Theological Seminary. Others take the Non-Degree Course of Study: twenty-one video-based course modules completed over a few years, while serving under a local minister's license here at Nikiski. If you think God may be calling you, the first step isn't a classroom — it's a conversation.
Student ministry at Nikiski is built on one conviction: students need a place to discover where their story fits inside the story of God — through all of history, into the present, and on into the lives ahead of them. That's what shapes passionate followers of Jesus for a lifetime, and it's what every gathering is for.
Youth Night
Dinner with the whole church family at 6:00, then students head to the Fish Factory — our youth building — for time together as friends: sometimes games, always relationship. Teaching comes first, and then background-checked, trained adults lead small groups where the conversation continues — honest questions in a safe place, about faith and life and Jesus. Built for coming and going: here one week and not the next is completely fine.
- When
- Wednesdays · 6:00-7:45 PM
- Where
- the Fish Factory
Early Morning Discipleship
For students who want more. A committed group learning to spend time in Scripture and prayer through a variety of practices — growing in intimacy with God and in accountability with one another as adulthood approaches. Runs in six-to-eight-week seasons with a break between; each new season's theme is announced below.
- When
- Tuesdays, during the school year · 6:30 AM
Retreats and camps
Through the year our students join retreats and camps with the Alaska District Church of the Nazarene — most recently Nazarene Youth Conference 2026 in Salt Lake City. Upcoming trips are posted below.
Children's discipleship at Nikiski starts in the worship service, not apart from it. Kids begin Sunday morning with their families — singing, scripture, and prayer with the whole church — because faith is something we hand down together, at church and at home.
Sunday Mornings & the Tree House
Children worship with their families first. After singing, scripture, and prayer, kids age 5 through 5th grade head upstairs to the Tree House — our children's discipleship area — for age-appropriate teaching and small groups led by multiple background-checked adults and youth helpers, every Sunday through the year.
- When
- Sundays · 10:45 AM
- Where
- the Tree House
Family Worship Sundays
When a month has a fifth Sunday, we skip the dismissal: the whole family worships together through the entire service, kids included — noise and all.
- When
- Fifth Sundays
Nursery
Care for ages 0-4 every Sunday, including Family Worship Sundays.
- When
- Sundays · 10:45 AM
What we teach
In the Tree House we use the 252 Kids curriculum from Orange — now part of Amazing Life — built around one theme and one Bible verse each month, taught large-group and then talked through in small groups.
It's built around a core value we share: what happens at home is as important as what happens at church — so each month's theme comes with ways for families to keep the conversation going through the week.