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Vision 2020: CIS Field embraces challenge to double in 15 years

What would it look like to double the number of Nazarene churches in the CIS Field (Commonwealth of Independent States) in the next 15 years? So far, it’s looking like families moving into cities and countries where the denomination does not yet have a presence, and in some cases drawing on the
21 Sep 2016
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Healthy relationships build healthy communities in Ukraine

Can – or should – Christians do non-evangelistic events for the community? This was the question the leaders of Kyiv First Church of the Nazarene discussed as they planned an event together with Kirche in Aktion (KiA), a Nazarene church in Frankfurt, Germany. About three years ago, Kyiv First Church
15 Sep 2016
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Pursued by God: Lena's story

It was 5 p.m. on May 25 in the year 2000. Lena was 21 years old, and at this precise moment, she accepted Jesus into her life for the very first time. Up until this point in her life, Lena had stayed away from Christianity and even religion in general. Living in Kazakhstan, most people belong to one
08 Sep 2016
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Drama club helps Roma children, Bulgarian adults build trust

The community drama club’s first rehearsals in a rural village of Bulgaria were so full of hostility and arguing that one might think the real drama was offstage. Widespread conflict and mutual suspicion between Roma children and their elderly Bulgarian neighbors had been the norm until about two
26 Aug 2016
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Global classroom links Arkansas, Romania high school students

Students from Batesville, Arkansas, High School meet with Romanian high school students through Skype. A brainstorming session between two Nazarene friends resulted in a ground-breaking, globe-spanning experiment. It united two groups of students from Batesville, Arkansas, and Sighisoara, Romania,
26 Aug 2016
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Italy struck by deadly earthquake

NASA photo A 6.2-magnitude earthquake leveled the town of Accumoli in central Italy and destroyed about three-quarters of the homes in nearby Amatrice Wednesday morning, according to BBC News. CNN reported Friday that the death toll hit 250. The Church of the Nazarene's Italy District is currently
24 Aug 2016
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Longtime Scottish missionary doctor Samuel Hynd remembered

Dr Samuel Hynd (left) with business mogul Natie Kirsh in an undated picture. ( Swazi Observer photo) Dr Samuel Hynd, a longtime Scottish missionary to Swaziland, passed away August 18 at the age of 91. Hynd was born on 19 December 1924 in the home of his grandfather, George Sharpe, the founder of
18 Aug 2016
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Daily bread: Livestock project helps secure food, future for families in Armenia

By raising sheep, Anna Hakobyan can provide milk for her family and sell wool for income. There are six adults in Anna Hakobyan’s household, but none can find a stable job in Armenia. Every year, Anna’s husband leaves their village and travels to Russia, hoping to find work for a few months at a
11 Aug 2016
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Nazarenes design 'Hub' for community, creativity in Croatia

In a country where being in a community is part of the culture, Nazarenes wanted to provide a place where people could develop holistically in a spiritual community. Missionaries Dave and Betsy Scott provided the impetus. With friends, volunteer missionaries, and local partners, they opened The Hub
10 Aug 2016
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Ukraine church ministers to families displaced by political violence

The seaside city of Odessa, Ukraine, is known as a resort town. Its health sanatoriums were designed to be places of rest and recovery, where residents could relax, recreate, and in some cases receive short-term medical services. But in the gray winter months of 2016, one sanatorium outside the city
04 Aug 2016
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