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WELCOME

Rising Tide Church is a welcoming Christian community. We exist to share the love of Jesus in a way that is genuine, hopeful, and relevant to everyday life. We believe church should be a place where you can belong before you believe, ask honest questions, and come just as you are.

We are a holiness church, believing that God not only saves us but continues to shape us into people who live lives of love, integrity, and grace. 

 

Our Heart & Values:

  • You can belong before you believe
  • Everyone matters to God
  • No one is expected to have it all together
  • Growth is a journey, not a checklist
  • Love leads everything we do

RISING TIDE CHURCH LEADERSHIP

Meet the Rising Tide Church team

Reverend Bill Heerebout

Our Minister

Rev Bill Heerebout is our minister. Born and raised in Halifax, NS he came to faith in 1975 through the bus ministry.

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Carly Watson

Youth Pastor

Carly is our youth and young adult ministry leader. Her heart for young people is truly amazing, and she wants to see the gospel of Jesus Christ preached in schools and campuses across this city.

STATEMENT OF MISSION

RISING TIDE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

The mission of the Rising Tide Church of the Nazarene is to make Christlike disciples in the nations.

We are a Great Commission church. As a global community of faith, we are commissioned to take the Good News of life in Jesus Christ to people everywhere and to spread the message of scriptural holiness across the lands.

 

The Rising Tide Church of the Nazarene bonds together individuals who have made Jesus Christ Lord of their lives, sharing in Christian fellowship, and seeking to strengthen each other in faith development through worship, preaching, training, and service to others.

 

We strive to express the compassion of Jesus Christ to all persons along with our personal commitment to Christlike living. While the primary motive of the church is to glorify God, we also are called to actively participate in His mission — reconciling the world to himself.

 

The statement of mission contains historical essentials of our mission: Evangelism, Sanctification, Discipleship, Compassion. The essence of holiness is Christlikeness. Nazarenes are becoming a sent people-into homes, work places, communities, and villages as well as other cities and countries. Missionaries are now sent from all regions of the world. God continues calling ordinary people to do extraordinary things made possible by the person of the Holy Spirit. 

WHAT WE BELIEVE

Our beliefs are rooted in the Bible and centered on Jesus Christ

GOD
JESUS CHRIST
SALVATION
THE HOLY SPIRIT
THE BIBLE
THE CHURCH

CORE VALUES

A CHRISTIAN PEOPLE

As members of the Church Universal, we join with all true believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ and in affirming the historic Trinitarian creeds and beliefs of the 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 united with all believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We believe that in divine love God offers to all people forgiveness of sins and restored relationship. In being reconciled to God, we believe that we are also to be reconciled to one another, loving each other as we have been loved by God and forgiving each other as we have been forgiven by God. We believe that our life together is to exemplify the character of Christ. We look to Scripture as the primary source of spiritual truth confirmed by reason, tradition, and experience.


 

Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Church, which, as the Nicene Creed tells us, is one, holy, universal, and apostolic. In Jesus Christ and through the Holy Spirit, God the Father offers forgiveness of sin and reconciliation to all the world. Those who respond to God’s offer in faith become the people of God. Having been forgiven and reconciled in Christ, we forgive and are reconciled to one another. In this way, we are Christ’s Church and Body and reveal the unity of that Body. As the one Body of Christ, we have “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.” We affirm the unity of Christ’s Church and strive in all things to preserve it.
(Ephesians 4:5, 3).

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.



 

Because we are called by Scripture and drawn by grace to worship God and to love Him with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves, we commit ourselves fully and completely to God, believing that we can be “sanctified wholly,” as a second crisis experience. We believe that the Holy Spirit convicts, cleanses, fills, and empowers us as the grace of God transforms us day by day into a people of love, spiritual discipline, ethical and moral purity, compassion, and justice. It is the work of the Holy Spirit that restores us in the image of God and produces in us the character of Christ.

 

We believe in God the Father, the Creator, who calls into being what does not exist. We once were not, but God called us into being, made us for himself, and fashioned us in His own image. We have been commissioned to bear the image of God: “I am the LORD . . . your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy”

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 begins in worship, ministers to the world in evangelism and compassion, encourages believers toward Christian maturity through discipleship, and prepares women and men for Christian service through Christian higher education.

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RISING TIDE CHURCH HISTORY

Serving the Windsor community since 1940

Following a series of evangelistic tent meetings held in Windsor during the summer of 1940, a group of interested individuals began meeting for regular worship in a rented hall on Water Street. In 1941, a congregation of the Church of the Nazarene was officially organized, marking the beginning of what would become a lasting ministry in the Windsor community.

 

In 1942, a house on Gerrish Street was purchased to serve both as a place of worship and as the pastor’s residence. This location remained the church’s home until 1963. What began as a small gathering of believers continued to grow, eventually outgrowing the Gerrish Street property. Plans were then made to construct a dedicated church building.

 

In 1964, a new church was built and dedicated to the glory of God at 131 Wentworth Road in Windsor. Over the years, this building has been expanded several times to accommodate the growing congregation—first in 1972 under the leadership of Rev. Bob Brooks, again in 1984, and most recently in 2004—resulting in the facility as it stands today.

Throughout its history, the church has been a testimony to the grace of God. It has experienced many seasons of blessing as well as times of challenge, yet in every season God has remained faithful, continually making Himself known among His people.

 

In 2025, the church was renamed Rising Tide Church of the Nazarene, reflecting a renewed and contemporary ministry focus. It is often said that a rising tide lifts all boats. With that vision, we seek to lift up Jesus—trusting that, through the power of His Spirit, He will lift all who are part of Rising Tide Church, now and in the generations to come.

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