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Every year, hundreds of people are trained in missions in the Mesoamerican Region through the Missionary Orientation Camps (COM) of the Church of the Nazarene. In 2023, that was no different for the Caribbean Field, where 25 people participated virtually in a COM.

After three years without meeting in person, the Trinidad and Tobago District Nazarene Missions International Council resumed its District’s Children’s Bible Camp in April to tell a missionary story to 57 eager children.

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*.

Donald Crenshaw, 94, of Olathe, Kansas, passed away 4 May 2023. He was as a retired minister, evangelist, and missionary who served in Argentina from 1961 to 1967 and in the Dominican Republic from 1985 to 1994.

The Verapaz North District of Guatemala welcomed 10 new churches in 2022. The churches were presented at the district assembly 17 March as part of the work carried out by the church in the last year.

More than 100 pastors and leaders from the four districts of Nicaragua participated in the First National Pastors Conference at the Nazarene Bible Center in San Jorge, Rivas, Nicaragua.

More than 400 children and adolescents joined a special service called “The Best Gift,” held at the Casa de Bendición Church of the Nazarene in San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic.

Nearly 800 people attended the International Congress for Pastors and Leaders, organized by Mexico’s Oaxaca Northwest District. The participants are from various parts of Mexico and other countries, such as the United States, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Peru.

The youth ministry of the Church of the Nazarene in Rositer Carballo, Costa Rica, is experiencing significant growth since adding a new ministry. Currently, about 11 people are part of the youth ministry team, and about 65 young people meet every Friday.

Multiple people were baptized last year in Mexico thanks to the ministry of their family member, Miguel Mendoza, who is the pastor of Hispanic Ministries at Shawnee Church of the Nazarene in Kansas.