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Almost a dozen years ago, “to make Christlike disciples in the nations” became the officially stated mission of the Church of the Nazarene. Of course, while that exact wording may be somewhat recent, what it says is not. Global outreach has been in Nazarene DNA from the very beginning. Our mission

The Church of the Nazarene is assisting some of the thousands of people displaced by an armed conflict in the southern Philippines. The ongoing conflict, which began May 23, has displaced nearly 360,000 people — about half of them children. Some, including the elderly and the very young, walked as

As Naseef helped his parents toil in the fields of the family farm in Syria, he dreamt of a different life. Someday, he told himself, he would become finance manager in a corporation. Naseef was well on his way to realizing his dream when he enrolled at university to study his passion: economics.

Bill and Theresa* never imagined that after 35 years of pastoral ministry and sending off their own daughter and her family to be Nazarene missionaries that they would hear God calling them to cross-cultural missions, too. Today, the couple have been serving with Nazarene Global Mission for about a

Decatur, Illinois, First Church of the Nazarene team (Facebook photo) Shauna Bohlmann, a member of Decatur, Illinois, First Church of the Nazarene, was one of the more than 1,200 Nazarenes who participated in the weeklong One Heart – Many Hands service project in Indianapolis, Indiana. Bohlmann

When then-District Superintendent Philip McAlister arrived at the Headwell Church of the Nazarene on Easter Sunday 2015, he hoped to bring encouragement to the small, struggling congregation. Through difficult times, the congregation had been whittled down to almost nothing, but several were still

Pastor Stephen Gualberto of the GMA Church of the Nazarene in Cavite, Philippines, has taken incorporating children and youth into his church to a whole new level. His approach is simple: Involve the youth in a sport with the following plan for each team. 1 coach – A young leader that is mature in

Even though Mahdi* was young, experiencing persecution for his faith was nothing new to him. He and Amira* had just married. Although from different countries in the Middle East, they shared a common faith in Christ. Mahdi and Amira lived and ministered in her home country of Syria in an area that

Not infrequently, people think the only way they can participate in to-the-ends-of-the-earth evangelism is by flying to another country. They are wrong. “Going” is just one avenue of world mission involvement. Indeed, those who leave home to become career missionaries need a cadre of consecrated and

Nazarene Missions International delegates carried Thursday’s celebratory attitude and spirit of unity into the final day of the convention Friday. Each NMI workshop was offered a second time to packed audiences, then delegates tossed beach balls as they entered the plenary session while the