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NCN News compiled the following list of spring commencement reports from each of the Nazarene institutions of higher education on the USA/Canada Region: Ambrose University President: Gordon Smith Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Web: ambrose.edu Date of Graduation Exercises: 27 April Commencement

A traveling clinic in Panama provided medical services for 626 people in four communities from 29 April to 2 May. Nazarene Compassionate Ministries and the Panama Work & Witness team organized the event alongside a group of volunteers from Flint Central Church of the Nazarene in Michigan. They began

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received 20-24 May 2019. Barbara Hamilton , 86, of Terre Haute, Indiana, passed away 14 May. She was preceded in death by her husband, retired minister Omer Hamilton, who

Rania* was just a teenager when her mom, a well-known TV journalist, died protecting Rania and her three sisters at their home in Palestinian territory near the Israel border. In 2007, a militant group moved into their neighborhood and used the civilian properties as bases for firing missiles into

Pastor Justin Oberndorfer and his wife, Sarah, of Gracepoint Church of the Nazarene in Shawnee, Kansas, are working to build a foster care community in Basehor — a small town on the outskirts of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Responding to the foster care shortage in Kansas , the Oberndorfers

Retired missionary Geraldine “Gerre” Hall passed away 7 May. She was 93 years old. Gerre married her husband, B. Maurice Hall, in 1948. They served together at two churches in Los Angeles, California, before they were appointed to their first missionary position in 1955. For the next 20 years, Gerre

The Well Health Center was built last year and opened in January after the Church of the Nazarene in Cactus, Texas , saw a need for health care in the Cactus community. The church already offered English as a Second Language classes, community outreach initiatives, and immigration and civics

Hundreds of Nazarenes of all ages took to the streets 29 April in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to share the Gospel for an Urban Invasion event themed A Genesis For Our Churches. Global Missions and the Genesis Initiative promoted the event in the Central District, and the objective was to

Photo by Andrew Shiva , used under CC BY-SA 4.0 , cropped from original When Annabelle Twal moved with her family from Switzerland to Jerusalem, Israel, in 2014, she did not think that God would make use of her fluency in German to help start a new work. After they arrived, Annabelle and her husband

Nearly 70 homes were destroyed 30 April in a landslide that swept through La Paz, Bolivia. Major city roads have been closed off, more than 300 people are sleeping in tents at a local soccer field, and four people remain missing and are presumed to be trapped in the debris. The local Church of the