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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

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

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

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

A boat motors between flooded homes on Saturday after heavy rains in the region in Hammond, Louisiana. (AP photo) A deluge of unusually heavy rains late last week caused unprecedented flooding in southern Louisiana and parts of Mississippi. At least 13 people died in the record-level floods, which

Vernon Lunn, a lifelong Nazarene layman and General Board member for 24 years, passed away August 8. He was 93. Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, he was one of seven children born to Mervel and Alma Lunn. Vernon attended Westport High School in Kansas City and Pasadena Nazarene College (now

In September 2015, the USA/Canada Multicultural Ministries office launched the Ethnic Leadership Development Initiative to coach, mentor, and cultivate the next generation of young leaders from different ethnic groups on the USA/Canada Region through a two-year program. The ethnic facilitators

Facebook photo Ron Salsbury, senior pastor of New Life Community Church of the Nazarene in Pismo Beach, California, died peacefully July 31 surrounded by family after a long battle with cancer. He was 66. Pismo Beach New Life Community Church is one of the largest Nazarene churches on the USA/Canada

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 from July 1 to July 31, 2016. To view