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Fifty representatives from more than 14 churches across South Africa’s Gauteng and Western districts descended upon Nazarene Theological College in Johannesburg, South Africa, to help with clean-up, renovations, and general repairs around the campus on 18 February.

Three new district superintendents have been installed recently on the Africa Region, two in South Africa and one in Mozambique.

The Africa South Field is proud to announce the election of Thabo Philemon Mabotja as the newly elected district superintendent of the South Africa KwaZulu Natal (KZN) District. Mabotja is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene and serves as the senior pastor of the Okkerneutboom Church of

The Africa Region recently announced two new district superintendents: Leholohonolo Michael Oliphant for the Lesotho District and Vincent Peter Maholbela for the Eastern South Africa District.

Kenneth Crow, 80, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, passed away 24 March 2022. He served as a missionary, educator, and senior program manager of Research at the Global Ministry Center.

Joseph Penn, 104, of Hesperia, California, passed away 5 January 2022. He was a retired minister and missionary who served in Eswatini, Mozambique, and South Africa for 40 years.

The Africa Region announced the appointment of Solomon Ndlovu as field strategy coordinator for the Africa South Field, effective 1 July 2021.

Elizabeth “Beth” Merki, 88, of Millville, New Jersey, passed away 29 June 2021. She served as a missionary for 32 years in South Africa, Swaziland (now Eswatini), and Papua New Guinea, alongside her late husband, Robert Merki.

Since September 1, 2009, the Church of the Nazarene's Global Ministry Center (GMC) proudly flies a flag each week of one of the many nations in which the denomination is present in ministry. Leaders were invited to send a national flag to be flown at the GMC alongside the flag of the United States*.

David Moyer Sr., 78, of Mesa, Arizona, passed away 1 January 2020. He was a retired missionary who served in South Africa and Kenya. David Brooks Moyer Sr. was born in Illinois in the spring of 1941. He was adopted by his loving parents, Robert and Eleanor Moyer, at 6 weeks of age. He contracted