TurningLeaf Community"

Turning Leaf Community, a Church of the Nazarene, started on May 6, 2007 as a church plant sponsored by the Orangewood Church of the Nazarene in Phoenix. Pastor Jeff Fillis was on staff at the Orangewood Church as Worship Pastor for 10 years. As time went by Pastor Jeff began to sense that God was calling him to take a leap of faith and begin a church in the west valley of the Phoenix area. He began working with the leadership of the Orangewood Church to develop a core group of people who joined with him to start Turning Leaf.

Turning Leaf Church is currently meeting at Barbary Robey School in the Litchfield Elementary School District. The ministry team at Turning Leaf believes strongly that the church is not there for the sole reason of bringing people to the church; but that the church has a responsibility to go out into the community. We are constantly looking for new ways to help the community we were called to serve, being the Love of Christ to people who are hurting and need hope.

Although our history is not long, it is rich. We have already seen God move in the lives of our members and in those whom we minister to. The future of our church is not yet written but we know that it is filled with joy and hope that is found in Jesus Christ. The Lord will continue to use this church to minister to people who are in desperate need of hope because the Church is not a building and our ministry is not confined to walls, but reaches wherever our people are. And where the people of Turning Leaf are, the Love of Christ is transforming lives.