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Jerry D. Porter delivered the annual Board of General Superintendents' Report during the 93rd Session of the General Board 28 February in Ede, Netherlands. This was the first General Board held outside the U.S. Porter's report, titled "VISION 2020—Multiplying Christlike Disciples," was

Cindy Schmelzenbach will become the Asia-Pacific Region’s first regional member care coordinator March 1. Cindy, wife of Melanesia South Pacific Field Strategy Coordinator Harmon Schmelzenbach, currently serves as personnel and member care & development coordinator for the Church of the Nazarene's

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received February 22-26, 2016. Orville Clark , 79, of Hendersonville, Tennessee, passed away February 13. He was a lifelong Church of the Nazarene member. He is survived by

Former Church of the Nazarene missionary Carol (Gregory) Kratz Bennett passed away January 29 in Bethany, Oklahoma, where she had been residing for the past nine years. She was 89. She was born in Portland, Oregon, December 13, 1926, to Robert and Wilma Gregory. Carol was preceded in death by her

The Church of the Nazarene is now registered in Singapore. This official government recognition opens the door for the continued development of the denomination there. The announcement that the Registry of Societies had approved in principle the application for registration was made February 7

When their pastor fled because of death threats, a vibrant church in a secure area* was left without a shepherd. Several lay people stepped forward to take leadership and hold the church together. One of those is a young business man, Thomas (actual name withheld), who has faced traumatic

For the past few weeks, things at the Nazarene Hospital at Kudjip, Papua New Guinea, have been a bit gloomy. Some of the gloom has been due to the rain, power outages, wet shoes, and darker days, but a lot of the gloom has been because the hospital received confirmation that our budget for the year

Two new youth ministry academies began in Cuba this month. The academies offer bachelor's degrees in youth ministry through an agreement with the Nazarene Seminary of the Americas. Thirty-eight youth leaders seeking excellence in their service to the youth and adolescents in their care will be

Recent praise reports and prayer requests from NCN News, Nazarene Missions International, and JESUS Film Harvest Partners include: PRAISES JESUS Film - Malawi "The people were distraught," said a team member in Malawi. "Heavy rain brought floods leaving many people dead and others homeless. They

Southeast Asia Field Strategy Coordinator David Phillips has been declared cancer-free and approved to return to work. Phillips shared the following update on his Facebook page last week: "Good news! The CT scan is clear! I am done with chemo and there is no evidence of cancer. Thank you all for