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Italy church embraces Nigerian, Chinese immigrants

Simon Criswick shares how the Chiesa del Nazareno di Mugello is reaching out to a group of Nigerian and Chinese immigrants. Read more

Alabaster Offering funds used to purchase Spain parsonage

Pastor Joel Castro of Zaragoza, Spain, shares how funds from the Alabaster Offering provided a home for him and his family. Read more

Norman Salmons passes away

Norman Salmons, a retired Nazarene missionary, passed away 23 April at the age of 97 in Bromley, England. Read more

Daring to dream: UK Nazarenes learn ways to break down barriers

Nazarenes in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland gathered to seek God’s dream for pioneering to their communities. Read more

'Are you willing to be healed?'

In her job as the local leader for compassionate ministry to laborers and their families in the Sri Lankan tea gardens of Pattana, Dimbulla, and Ragala, Mary visits many people in their homes. Often she finds that the parents are unable to feed their children. So she opens the lunch she planned for herself and distributes it among the hungry little ones. Read more

Cross-cultural volunteering: 'Love is the number one language'

Anderson Martinez said he was willing to go anywhere he was needed, and that need was in Greece with a team serving refugees who fled violence and civil war in their countries. Read more

Lebanon food ministry serves Syrian refugees, elderly residents

Five days a week, volunteers rub shoulders and bump elbows in the cramped, narrow kitchen next to the Achrafieh Church of the Nazarene. They cook about 100 hot, healthy meals for Syrian refugee students and neighborhood shut-ins, all of whom struggle to get adequate nutrition each week. Read more

As important as any other kids

“I found them last summer, looking through the trash for food,” Gesti, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene in Kombinat, Albania, told me as we were on our way to visit the child development centre that his congregation had established. “Two sisters and a brother; the oldest was 12 at the time, and none of them had ever been to school.” (via Engage magazine) Read more