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Honorio “Norie” Mateo Sr. passed away September 27. He served the Church of the Nazarene for more than 50 years in several leadership capacities, including youth president, pastor, district superintendent, church planter, and board member of Nazarene higher educational institutions in the

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received September 19-23, 2016. R. Harold Brown , 88, of Denver City, Texas, passed away September 20. He was a retired minister, serving in Missouri, Texas, South Africa, the

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received September 12-16, 2016. David Blum , 91, of Tillamook, Oregon, passed away September 9. He was a retired minister, serving in Alberta, Oregon, Saskatchewan, and

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received September 5-9, 2016. John Bullock , 88, of Tempe, Arizona, passed away September 6. He was a retired minister, serving in California, Idaho, Oregon, Washington,

Edward "Ed" Heck, senior pastor of Kankakee, Illinois, First Church of the Nazarene and an adjunct professor at Olivet Nazarene University, passed away September 6. He was 62. Cindi Schimmelpfennig, executive pastor of Family Life Ministries at Kankakee First Church, told the Daily Journal Heck

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received August 15-19, 2016. Joseph Biscoe Jr. , 89, of Kansas City, Kansas, passed away August 15. He was a retired minister, serving in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Deleware,

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

Africa Regional Director Filimao Chambo shared the following tribute to his father, Rev. Manuel Filimao Tsambe Chambo: Grieving and celebrating a life well-lived! My dad, Rev. Manuel Filimao Tsambe Chambo, has passed into glory on 4 August 2016. He was 78 years old. I sure would have loved to have

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