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The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received 11-15 December 2017. Martha (West) Andress , 89, of Gastonia, North Carolina, passed away 7 December. She was the wife of retired minister Robert Andress, who served

The Church of the Nazarene's Africa Region released the following announcement about the appointment of a new field strategy coordinator: We are pleased to announce that as of December 1, 2017, Rev. Moïse Toumoudagou has been appointed to serve as the field strategy coordinator of the Africa West

Translators from 11 different language groups gathered in Lisbon, Portugal, 18-24 November for the Church of the Nazarene’s first Manual Translation Summit. The group spent five days discussing additions to the 2017-2021 Manual and establishing a lexicon of terms for each language. Scott Stargel,

One year after Anderson Sanchez volunteered at a refugee camp where he became close to some of the families, he spent three weeks visiting them in their new northern European homes. A university student in Manchester, U.K., Anderson gave the summer of 2016 as an M+Power volunteer. He joined other

Sumprecia (left) and Lucy (right) are president and vice president of the Nazarene Girls for Justice Club. In Sumprecia Yaro’s rural village in northeastern Ghana, educating girls is typically frowned upon. “Right from childhood, the girls are made to believe that higher education makes it difficult

17-year-old Kelvin in Colombia followed traditional religious beliefs as a boy, but he realized he was too dissatisfied with the practices of this religion at the time of his confirmation. He grew increasingly distant from his childhood faith until one day he encountered the JESUS film , followed by

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received 4-8 December 2017. David Aaserud , 81, of Niagra Falls, New York, passed away 1 December. He was a retired minister, serving in New York, Maine, Maryland, Florida,

Susan Mwenda hopes that her participation in the savings and credit association will enable her to expand her small business so she can send her children to school. In Lusaka, Zambia, a group stands in a dusty lot, saying their goodbyes against the backdrop of the setting sun. Each week, the same

Compiled by the General Secretary's Office from district reports, Moving Ministers is a monthly listing of Nazarene ministers in new assignments on the USA/Canada Region. Roles included in the latest report are pastor and pastoral service. Entries were received in November 2017. To view the November

General Secretary David P. Wilson and Nazarene Research Services released the annual Church of the Nazarene statistical reports for 2017. These detailed reports documenting the missional activities of the denomination on a global scale show growth for the Church of the Nazarene over the statistical