Roxana Cine

Roxana Cine is a movie theater located in Roxana, Illinois, United States. It is not a national chain but a small, community-oriented cinema closely associated with the Roxana Church of the Nazarene, which owns and operates it. In the church's own materials, the venue is referred to as the "Nazarene Community Theater" and is listed alongside the church's other ministries and services, including the RIZE&SHINE weekday program and Child's Horizon Daycare. The theater is also known as The Rox Theater, the name used on its dedicated website and in the church's navigation menu. The venue's public identity is therefore twofold: it is both a local cinema serving Roxana and the surrounding Metro East area of Illinois and a ministry facility of the local Church of the Nazarene. The church describes itself in its materials as standing in the traditional Wesleyan-Holiness tradition and lists the theater among its outreach and community-facing operations. The theater office has its own phone line separate from the church office, and the church advertises that private party packages can be booked at the theater. Because Roxana Cine is a single-location community theater, its programming and operations are local rather than corporate. It does not appear to belong to any national exhibition chain and has no publicly traded parent company. Ownership and management rest with the Roxana Church of the Nazarene, and its leadership is tied to the church's pastoral staff, including lead pastor Gage Krebs and associate pastor Daniel Mattison, who oversees outreach and administration. Within a brand knowledge base, Roxana Cine is best understood as a privately held, faith-affiliated local entertainment venue. Its brand value lies in its role as a neighborhood cinema and community gathering space rather than in large-scale commercial exhibition. The available evidence does not establish its founding year, founders, ticket prices, number of screens, or corporate history, so these details should be treated as unknown rather than assumed.

Roxana Cine is a movie theater in Roxana, Illinois, United States. Public descriptions identify it simply as a movie theater in that village, and its operational identity is bound up with the Roxana Church of the Nazarene. The church's website presents the venue under the name Nazarene Community Theater and also links to a separate site for The Rox Theater, indicating that the cinema operates as a community-facing ministry of the congregation. The church itself describes a Wesleyan-Holiness identity and a set of core values rooted in historic Trinitarian creeds. Within that framework, the theater functions as one of several outreach and service operations listed alongside RIZE&SHINE, a midweek ministry for grades K–12, and Child's Horizon Daycare, a faith-based childcare facility owned and operated by the church. The theater has its own office phone line, and the church advertises private party packages for booking at the theater, suggesting that the venue is used for both film screenings and private events. The available evidence does not record when the theater was founded, who founded it, when the church acquired or began operating it, or how many screens it has. It also does not establish whether the Roxana Cine name predates the church's involvement or whether the Nazarene Community Theater and The Rox Theater names were adopted at a particular point. What is clear is that the cinema is a local, single-site operation rather than part of a national exhibition chain, and that its ownership and management rest with the Roxana Church of the Nazarene. Its leadership is tied to the church's pastoral staff, including Rev. Gage Krebs as Lead Pastor and Pastor Daniel Mattison as Associate Pastor of Outreach and Administration. As a brand, Roxana Cine occupies a small but distinct niche: a neighborhood cinema with a faith-based institutional owner, serving Roxana and the surrounding Metro East area of Illinois. Its history is therefore best documented through the church's records and local community sources rather than through corporate filings or chain-level announcements.

A local, faith-affiliated community movie theater in Roxana, Illinois, operated by the Roxana Church of the Nazarene.

• Movie screenings

  The theater operates as a local cinema in Roxana, Illinois.

• Private party packages

  The church advertises private party packages now available for booking at the theater.

• Nazarene Community Theater

  The church presents the venue under the name Nazarene Community Theater.

• The Rox Theater

  A dedicated website and name used for the theater in the church's navigation.

1. 1Roxana Church of the Nazarenercnchurch.com
2. 2About Us – Roxana Church of the Nazarenercnchurch.com
3. 3Roxana Cine – Wikidatawikidata.org