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General Superintendent David W. Graves delivers the opening message at TEACH 2016. Lay and clergy leaders from 26 districts across the USA/Canada Region gathered August 12 and 13 at TEACH 2016 to learn how to be more effective disciples who make disciples in and through the local church. The

College View is a newly established community in Sanniquellie in Nimba county on the Church of the Nazarene's Liberia Central District. College View became accessible in 2011 and gained its name from the Nimba County Community College, the only government-formed institution of higher education in

David Okon on a motorcycle. Churches on the South Central Ohio District rallied around two causes this summer. The first project began in March during missionary zone rallies on the district. Missionary Tim Eby spoke about the work God is doing in West Africa, showing a video about pastors and lay

District superintendents, field strategy coordinators, ministry coordinators, and special guests gathered together from across the Asia-Pacific Region for a conference in Manila, Philippines, August 8 to 12. Throughout the conference, participants sought the Lord’s leading, grew in knowledge of

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received August 15-19, 2016. Joseph Biscoe Jr. , 89, of Kansas City, Kansas, passed away August 15. He was a retired minister, serving in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Deleware,

Retired Church of the Nazarene missionary Lawrence “Larry” Faul passed away August 11. He was 91. Faul was born in Germantown Township, North Dakota, August 9, 1925. He married Betty Foraker August 16, 1945, and the couple served as missionaries for the Church of the Nazarene for 38 years. They

Charles "Chuck" Fowler passed away peacefully August 14 surrounded by family and friends after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56. Fowler was born September 22, 1959, in McLeansboro, Illinois, to Clark and Betty (Park) Fowler. He grew up in Griffith, Indiana, and attended Griffith

Dr Samuel Hynd (left) with business mogul Natie Kirsh in an undated picture. ( Swazi Observer photo) Dr Samuel Hynd, a longtime Scottish missionary to Swaziland, passed away August 18 at the age of 91. Hynd was born on 19 December 1924 in the home of his grandfather, George Sharpe, the founder of

Liberia was ravaged by the Ebola crisis as well as civil wars over the last decades, reducing the male population. Many women must now provide for their families. In partnership with Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, the Nazarene Women's Project has been in operation since 2001. Edith N'Boyou, a

Prayer is requested for Michigan District Superintendent John Seaman, who was hospitalized this week in Tennessee while visiting family. A member of the Church of the Nazarene’s General Board and a former missionary, Seaman continues to undergo tests to determine appropriate treatment. The following