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Ben and Katherine Radcliffe and their four children. Jim Radcliffe served 33 years as a surgeon at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG). When he spoke in churches during his home assignment tours in the U.S., he often said, “I hope to work myself out of a job.”

Nazarenes in the News is a compilation of online news articles featuring Nazarene churches or church members. Historic expansion of Nazarene hospital in Kudjip, Papua New Guina Kudjip, Papua New Guinea ( Loop Pacific , 5 May) Papua New Guinea and Australia are funding the largest extension in the

Thirty years ago, a new surgeon named Jim Radcliffe arrived at the Kudjip Nazarene Hospital station. He was getting ready to bring the evening devotion to the Nazarene missionary community when he was interrupted by news of an injured boy in desperate need of reparative surgery. There had been a

AP photo A 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea 26 February, killing at least 31 people . This is the strongest earthquake to strike the interior of Papua New Guinea in almost a century, and officials expect the death toll to climb. Nazarene sources report

The Church of the Nazarene's Global Mission office was pleased to announce the following retiring missionaries during the final meeting of the 94th Session of the General Board in Overland Park, Kansas. The missionaries were presented with a sculpture as a token of thanks. Global Mission, under the

Papua New Guinea is a country of wild beauty and warm people, a place steeped in tradition and superstition. Tribalism and family lines invariably inform life decisions. In the midst of all of this, the Western Highland’s District Assembly again proved that the business of God’s kingdom is more

Twenty minutes, that’s all. Only 20 minutes to fly from the Mission Aviation Fellowship hanger at Kagamuga Airport in Mt. Hagen, Papua New Guinea, to the Dusin Airstrip, on the side of a mountain at 6,100 feet. The flight itself is good for the soul on two counts: one being the weeks it may have

Wayne Larson, a retired missionary to Swaziland and Papua New Guinea, passed away May 29 at age 83. Wayne was born to Alfred and Lulu Larson November 9, 1932, in Portland, Oregon, and raised with his younger brother, Bruce. He married Joann in 1954, and the couple raised their three children in

Retired missionary Gordon Johnston passed away May 27. He was 77. Gordon and his wife, Pat, served the Church of the Nazarene in missions for 34 years in Lebanon, Jordan, and Papua New Guinea before retiring in June 2003. Gordon was an ordained minister, holding a bachelor’s degree from Pasadena

For the past few weeks, things at the Nazarene Hospital at Kudjip, Papua New Guinea, have been a bit gloomy. Some of the gloom has been due to the rain, power outages, wet shoes, and darker days, but a lot of the gloom has been because the hospital received confirmation that our budget for the year