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The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received June 27 - July 1, 2016. Paul Crew , 79, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, passed away June 26. He was a retired minister, serving in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, West Virginia,

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received June 20-24, 2016. Doris Bailey , 92, of Redding, California, passed away June 22. She was the widow of retired minister Bertram Bailey, who served in California,

The year 1919 was a momentous year in the history of the Church of the Nazarene in India. The first Nazarene church was organized, in Buldana, Maharashtra, and Suwartik Tukaram Gaikwad was born to a Methodist family. S. T. Gaikwad would become one of the towering Indian leaders in the Church of the

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received June 13-17, 2016. Viola Barton , 97, of Franklin, Tennessee, passed away June 9. She was the widow of retired minister, evangelist, and educator Edward Barton, who

Abishai McDonald, 34, lead pastor of Jacksonville, Florida, New Dimensions Church of the Nazarene, passed away June 7. McDonald’s legs were paralyzed in September 2015 due to a sudden blood clot on his spine. He fought courageously through rehab and physical therapy, but an infection in his blood

Nazarene minister, educator, and beloved leader Arnold Gordon Wetmore passed away June 9. He was 82. Wetmore was born on June 24, 1931, in New Brunswick, Canada. He received his undergraduate education at Eastern Nazarene College and earned the B.D. from Nazarene Theological Seminary in 1959. He

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received June 5-10, 2016. Jimmie Lee Jennette Andrews , 86, of Franklin, Tennessee, passed away June 3. She was the widow of J. T. Andrews, who served in Tennessee. J. T.

Herbert Rogers, retired Church of the Nazarene pastor and district superintendent, passed away May 31. He was 87. Rogers was born December 5, 1928, in Lowville, New York, to Glenn and Myrtle Rogers. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and later as an Army Reserve chaplain. He earned a Bachelor of

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received May 30 - June 3, 2016. Fay (Burrison) Collins , 96, of Sedro Woolley, Washington, passed away May 25. She was the widow of retired minister Mendal Collins, who served

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