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Three new superintendents were announced on the USA/Canada Region this week. Jeffery Barker and Daren Pitcher were elected to the Metro New York and Central California districts, respectively and Althea Taylor was appointed superintendent of the Hawaii Pacific District.

Hurricane Ida made landfall in the United States on 29 August, causing flooding, death, and destruction from Louisiana, and later into New York and New Jersey.

Olivia A. Metcalf has been appointed superintendent of the Upstate New York District. She most recently served as co-chaplain at Northwest Nazarene University with her husband, Dustin Metcalf.

Matt Woodley, a missionary doctor serving at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital in Papua New Guinea, recently spent three weeks working at a field hospital in New York City's Central Park treating COVID-19 positive patients.

Newell Smith has been appointed interim district superintendent for the Upstate New York District, effective 1 June 2020.

The Charlesburg Church of the Nazarene in Suriname hosted a combined service for all 16 Nazarene churches in the country 3 March. There were more than 200 people in attendance, including members from the Apoera, Haitian, Saramacaan, and Dutch churches. The event chairperson was Eric Hitzert, and the

Dallas Mucci, retired pastor and district superintendent, passed away 25 October at the age of 84. Mucci served as pastor of Tinley Park Church of the Nazarene in Chicago, Illinois, for eight years from 1956 to 1964 before following a call to pastor South Hills Church of the Nazarene in Bethel Park,

A Work & Witness team from the Upstate New York District, USA, volunteered at the Visayan Nazarene Bible College campus in Cebu City, Philippines, by renovating dorms and classrooms and working on the property 6-16 July. “My favorite part was working on the site, shoveling gravel and sand into the

General Superintendent David A. Busic announced the election of Samuel C. Vassel as superintendent of the Metro New York District . Elected 11 May on the first ballot, Vassel replaces Art Alexander, who is retiring after serving in the position since 2004. Vassel will begin his new assignment 11

Karen Blankenship (left) and Priscilla Onyedika Ozodo (right) Karen Blankenship, a recent pastor at Calvary Community Church of the Nazarene in West Henrietta, New York, passed away 14 February after a six-year battle with cancer. She was 60. Blankenship served as a minister at Oskaloosa, Iowa,