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Open Door Church of the Nazarene in Ibarra, Ecuador, celebrated its one-year anniversary March 8 by honoring its local leadership and hosting community events. The service was standing room only with more than 120 people in attendance. The anniversary, which fell on International Woman's Day,

Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma called for a three-day lockdown in the country as an effort to curb the spread of the Ebola virus. Citizens have been told to stay inside March 27 to 29 and from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the following three Saturdays: April 4, 11, and 18. Vidal Cole, the Nazarene

In Vanuatu, the Church of the Nazarene has been working to meet needs following the devastation created by Cyclone Pam. After the category 5 cyclone crashed into the island nation on March 13, local Nazarene churches and Nazarene missionaries immediately began to respond. There are officially eight

L. Duane Lum, pastor of the Plattsburgh, New York, Church of the Nazarene, passed away March 20. He was 58. Lum was born May 10, 1956, to Leonard and Lillian (Leach) Lum. He began pastoring in 1991, serving at the Lake Houston, Texas, Church of the Nazarene. Lum pastored the Glenpool, Oklahoma,

Northwest Nazarene University's RockSat-X engineering team, in collaboration with NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and Boise-based American Semiconductor, Inc. (ASI), will launch an experimental payload on a sub-orbital sounding rocket to 100 miles above the Atlantic Ocean on a half-hour flight Friday.

Point Loma Nazarene University celebrated the completion of 76 percent of the school year on Wednesday, March 25. More than a benchmark toward summer break, the day recognizes the fact that what students pay toward tuition only covers approximately 76 percent of his or her education costs. In fact,

Over the past several months, the sounds of hammers, grinding, pounding, and drilling have been common at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital. Onlookers eagerly awaited the day when the blocks and cement would turn into the newest addition to Kudjip Nazarene Hospital — a second operating theatre. The new

In a sensitive area on the Asia-Pacific Region, many workers from the countryside move to the city to gain employment in the booming construction activities, but getting their children into the public schools can be next to impossible. A local pastor recognized this need for education. He and his

Dr. Joseph Dudley Powers, the founding administrator of Kudjip Nazarene Hospital and a former Church of the Nazarene General Board president, passed away March 22. He was 87. Powers was born April 13, 1927, in Upland, California, to Ruby Mae (King) and Hardy C. Powers, who later served as a general

Nazarene Theological Seminary announced Tim McPherson as the new dean for institutional advancement. This is a new position for the seminary. "Over the last several months we have been working on a capacity-building project, which includes the addition of an Office of Advancement here at NTS," said