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Venezuela church feeds homeless amidst food crisis

Jesus the Hope Church of the Nazarene in Carrizal, Venezuela, began A Handful of Love and Hope, a monthly service project to help combat the food crisis in Venezuela. The project was announced in December when the church asked their community to bring handfuls of corn flour to make bollitos (a
20 Mar 2018
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Brazil church members share transformation story

Fernando and his son Yan were among several people baptized at First Church of the Nazarene in Nilópolis, Brazil, 25 February. The two shared about their new life in Christ. Fernando was paralyzed during an attack in 2009. He became depressed while adapting to his new situation and tried to take his
15 Mar 2018
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South America equips pastors, lay leaders

The South America Region recently hosted training for lay leaders and clergy to help them more adequately reach their local communities. Chile Ministries Alessandro Polonio, national holistic ministries coordinator, led an annual ministry training seminar in cooperation with Chile's national leaders
09 Mar 2018
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National leaders provide training, resources for Venezuela

As part of a movement to promote ministerial growth and development, the Venezuela national coordinators spoke at the conventions and district assemblies of the Andean, Lake, Central, First, and Plains districts from 2 February to 2 March. The leaders explained the purpose of their work and shared
01 Mar 2018
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Uruguay celebrates pastors' children

The pastoral family — and especially the generations of pastors' children — is an important area. To address this need, the first national retreat for pastors’ children was held 2-4 February in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. The invitation was made to all pastors’ children from the age of 3 to age 18. "It was
16 Feb 2018
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Baskets of Love in Venezuela

At first, Carmen thought of the Saturday church services at the Church of the Nazarene in El Llanito, Venezuela, as an activity for her children. A single mother without a permanent job, she was overwhelmed with looking for work and finding odd jobs to scrape by. With her children out of the house,
26 Jan 2018
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Oral discipleship model growing the church in South America, Africa

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
08 Dec 2017
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Reciprocal love

Benaia Freire Furtado had already been through a lot when she was first sponsored as a child in Brazil. Her father had recently died, preceded by a close friend only six months before. She had also moved with her mother and brother to a new city, where they didn’t have friends or family. She was
30 Nov 2017
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The garage that was too small for God

A four-person church plant that began meeting in a garage just two years ago has grown to 500 members and moved to its own building with room to continue adding new people to its church family. Pastor Ricardo Carvalho was discipling a small group as part of his obedience to God’s call to ministry on
02 Nov 2017
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'Suffering makes us equal': Disaster, spiritual relief in Chile

Chile faces frequent natural disasters because of seismic and volcanic activity. These include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and mega-fires. In 2010, a violent earthquake triggered several tsunamis, and in 2014 the country experienced a string of more than 300 earthquakes in one week.
26 Apr 2017
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