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A church led by children

What do you imagine when you think of "children’s church"? Most people picture a group of children being led in worship and other activities by adults, but the GMA Church of the Nazarene in Cavite, Philippines, has changed that picture. Nerry and Ivan are two of the leaders of Children’s Church at
05 Oct 2017
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Mission briefing: Globalization

Globalization became a hot topic in the 1980s. It still is. If you search for “globalization” on the Internet, Google will give you 42 million web pages to read. Conversations about globalization bring to mind beverage, clothing, and electronics brands sold worldwide, as well as identical
27 Sep 2017
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Former NMI Director Phyllis Perkins Howard remembered

Phyllis Perkins Howard passed away 12 September in Nampa, Idaho, at age 83. She was a former missionary and director of Nazarene World Mission Society (now Nazarene Missions International), as well as a retired educator. “Phyllis graced the office I now hold as global NMI director, and we feel her
14 Sep 2017
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Mission briefing: Mission fit

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
14 Aug 2017
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Philippines church responds in midst of armed conflict

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
11 Aug 2017
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Syrian refugee discovers Christ through Lebanon church

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.
27 Jul 2017
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Couple called to be missionaries at age 60+

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
11 Jul 2017
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OHMH: Service project meets spiritual, emotional needs

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
07 Jul 2017
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Scotland church experiences rebirth

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
07 Jul 2017
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Philippines church disciples children through sports

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
07 Jul 2017
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