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The Mission 2019 (M19) leadership team announced plenary speakers for the upcoming USA/Canada regional conference, February 11-13, 2019, in Kansas City, Missouri. "Our prayer is that these articulate presenters, along with a host of other special session and workshop leaders, will help us move

The Church Alliance—a coalition of the chief executive officers of 38 denominational benefit programs, which includes Pensions and Benefits USA—has filed an amicus curiae brief in the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Chicago), in the case challenging the constitutionality of the cash housing

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 April 2018. To view the April

General Superintendent David W. Graves announced the election of Dwight M. Gunter II as superintendent of the MidSouth District . Elected 30 April on the first ballot, Gunter replaces Larry Leonard, who is retiring after serving in the position since 2014. Gunter will begin his new assignment 30 May

Sean McPherson, lead pastor of Real Life Church of the Nazarene in Rapid City, South Dakota, passed away 26 April after battling cancer for more than a year. He was 47. McPherson also served as a South Dakota state representative, a position he was elected to in 2016 where he served District 32.

Nazarenes in the News is a compilation of online news articles featuring Nazarene churches or church members. Mentoring turns struggling students into high school graduates Columbus, Indiana ( The Republic , 21 April) A program that helps local students meet graduation requirements continues to turn

General Superintendent David A. Busic announced the election of Kerry W. Willis as superintendent of the Philadelphia District . Elected 23 April on the first ballot, Willis replaces Newell Smith, who is retiring after serving 18 years in the position. Willis will begin his new assignment 28 May.

Cybersecurity defense is now a concentration in the computer science major offered by the Department of Computer Science in the Martin D. Walker School of Engineering at Olivet Nazarene University. Reed Hall of Science is the home for the university’s new cybersecurity lab, and enrollment is now

While deployed in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Chaplain Micheal Anderson and the Task Force Brawler Unit Ministry Team (UMT) offered a special Good Friday “Stations of the Cross” experience 30 March during Holy Week. For five hours, the UMT used the Task Force conference room to establish eight prayer

Pictured from left to right: David, Alyssa, and Susan Baker Susan and Alyssa Baker, the wife and daughter, respectively, of Martins Chapel Church of the Nazarene Pastor David Baker, were killed in a car accident 20 April. Susan , 49, and Alyssa , 15, were residents of Troup, Texas. ABC News reports