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Nepal is known for the Himalayan mountain range and the highest point above sea level — Mount Everest. The country is filled with multiple ethnic groups and more than 120 languages. Less than 2 percent of the population is Christian. The country's median age is 23 years old and less than 5 percent

Photos by Christian Bangert Six months after deadly earthquakes devastated Nepal, killing more than 8,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless, local Nazarene churches continue to respond to ongoing needs. On April 25, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake demolished 500,000 homes and killed more

At the beginning of September, Christian Bangert of Gelnhausen, Germany, left for a 3 and a half month assignment as an M+Power volunteer, working with the Nazarene church in Nepal. He is filling a support role for the Nepal leadership as they work on plans for helping people to rebuild after the

"This is the Church in Eurasia believing that God’s missional call is reverberating from the Alps to the Himalayas, and it is unprecedented." There is a place tucked into the arms of the Rhein River, a tiny place with a German name that has been preparing and sending Nazarene young people into the

It has been less than two months since a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated the lives of hundreds of thousands of families in Nepal, yet stories from Nepal no longer show up as headline news in the media. Still, the Church of the Nazarene continues to respond. To date, the church in Nepal has

Sajita* and other members of her 12-person family had done everything they could think of to find help for her father and younger brother, who was 16 at the time. The two were out of their minds with a kind of madness for years that had placed great tensions and burdens on the whole family. Sajita

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook eastern Nepal, near Mount Everest, May 12. This quake comes just two weeks after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated the country, killing more than 8,000 people and destroying entire communities. At least 39 more people have been confirmed dead and more than 1,000

“Our biggest advantage to being a small organization as Nazarene Compassionate Ministries: We are very fast and very flexible,” said Jörg Eich, Eurasia Region NCM coordinator in a debriefing the day after NCM Nepal team members carried more than 300 bags of rice to the village of Tindhara where

“We are in the wilderness. We are unable to die. We are unable to live,” said a young woman in Tindhara, Nepal, a small community east of Kathmandu. Tindhara is in the Sindhupalchok district, where almost half of the casualties occurred following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country

When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, it was a Saturday. In Nepal, that’s the day when Christians gather to worship. That meant that most churches were full when the ground began to violently shake beneath their feet. Prakash, the pastor of the Nazarene church outside Kathmandu,