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Merlin, his wife, and their four children (Facebook photo). Retired minister and missionary Merlin Hunter passed away 16 March at the age of 88. Merlin received his Bachelor of Arts from Northwest Nazarene College (now University) in 1953 and his Master of Divinity from Nazarene Theological Seminary

Fualaau Rosa Ho-Ching of Long Beach, California, passed away 26 January following a battle with cancer. Her husband, Taliu, is the senior pastor at Wilmington First Samoan Church of the Nazarene. She was 60 years old. Rosa was born in Western Samoa into a Christian home with four brothers and one

Nazarenes in the News is a compilation of online news articles featuring Nazarene churches or church members. California church opens its doors to house 50-person temporary homeless shelter Costa Mesa, California ( The Los Angeles Times , 16 January) Officials and advocates hailed the dawn of a new

Hope Point Church of the Nazarene volunteers prepare barbeque for evacuees at the Oroville Shelter. (Oroville Church of the Nazarene Facebook photo) More than 230,000 acres of land have been burned over the past week in two California wildfires, the Camp Fire north of Sacramento and the Woolsey Fire

Habib Alajaji, pastor and district superintendent, passed away 14 October at the age of 80. Alajaji was born into a Christian family in 1937 in Aleppo, Syria. After finishing at Ebenezer Bible School in 1960, he served in an evangelistic center in Beirut, Lebanon, until he was ordained in 1970.

Nazarenes in the News is a compilation of online news articles featuring Nazarene churches or church members. Crossroads church joins coworking trend Palo Alto, California ( Palo Alto Online , 27 July) Silicon Valley might be the capital of startups, but it also can be a lonely place for home-based

General Superintendent Eugénio R. Duarte announced the election of Albert W. Hung as superintendent of the Northern California District . Elected 12 May on the first ballot, Hung replaces Gary Moore, who has served as interim superintendent since February 2015 after the previous superintendent, John

Located in downtown Los Angeles, California, Skid Row is home to 15,000 people. Ten thousand are part of the low-income sector, and 6,000 are either homeless or in rescue missions (according to City Data). The area is occasionally known as a party center, which brings substance abuse and petty crime

At just about 100 years old, Bakersfield Church of the Nazarene in California is drawing in a new generation of teenagers from its surrounding neighborhoods. Donabel Martin is the outreach and young adult pastor, as well as an interim youth pastor. She and her lead pastors and the congregation have

Beverlee "Bev" Borbe, 87, passed away November 12 in Santa Rosa, California. She was a retired educator and a longtime leader for Nazarene Missions International. She and her husband, Richard, celebrated 67 years of marriage in August. Bev attended Pasadena College (now Point Loma Nazarene