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The History of Northview Alliance
 

In July 1941, Rev. John Nussbaum (then pastor of the Alliance Church in the Brooklyn area of Cleveland) acted on a vision to plant a church of the Christian & Missionary Alliance in Wooster, Ohio.  He, along with Rev. Edmund Schumacher and his wife and Kenneth Duncan as song leader, held nightly evangelistic services for a month in a tent downtown, and then rented a storefront to continue services into the fall.

Several pastors picked up the work in Wooster over the following year, and in October of 1941 the church was officially organized with 10 charter members and received by the denomination as a Christian & Missionary Alliance church.
After meeting in facilities downtown for many years, a building was erected on Burbank Road in the north end of town, and dedicated February 2, 1969 as the Northview Church of the Christian & Missionary Alliance.  Then, in 1976, an educational wing was added to bring the building to its present configuration.

Northview presently has around 100 active members and an attendance that averages 160.  Our sanctuary will comfortably handle 250, so we are looking to the Lord for growth that comes from four sources: transfers (those coming into the Wooster area and looking for an evangelical church in which to fellowship and minister); new Christians (those who have recently made a profession of faith in Christ and want to be a part of a church family for nurture, worship, growth and service); inquirers (those who are on a spiritual quest and want more information about the Christian life); and babies (children born to our families that we can love and teach about Jesus).