All News

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received 12-16 February 2018. Karen Blankenship , 60, of West Henrietta, New York, passed away 14 February. She was a minister, serving in Iowa and New York. She is survived

Amy Warner grew up in the Erskine, Scotland, Church of the Nazarene, but as a teenager she felt like there weren’t too many other girls in the church and it would have been easy to wander away. In a church with few female leaders, it would have been understandable for then youth pastor Alan Baird to

A Bradenton, Florida, Sunday School class is challenging its members’ understanding of Scripture. For several years now, Bayshore Church of the Nazarene has offered an elective class focusing on rediscovering the Bible. The content is collected from Continuing Lay Training, found on Sunday School

The pastoral family — and especially the generations of pastors' children — is an important area. To address this need, the first national retreat for pastors’ children was held 2-4 February in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. The invitation was made to all pastors’ children from the age of 3 to age 18. "It was

Resources are now available for the upcoming 2018 Easter Offering for the World Evangelism Fund . The offering website, nazarene.org/generosity , includes promotional materials such as social media graphics, children's activity sheets, posters, and bulletin inserts to support local churches. The

Northwest Nazarene University recently met its fundraising goal of $16.5 million for a new student commons building, and groundbreaking will commence 9 March. NNU began fundraising two years ago. In December 2017, they announced a 60-day fundraising challenge to raise the last $500,000 for the

Rubén and Mónica Fernández The evangelical church in Cuba had a day to remember 3 December 2017 as SENDAS ( Seminario Nazareno de las Americas ) President Rubén Fernández spoke during two live broadcasts (at 8 a.m. and 10 p.m.) on the airways of Cuba's CMBF National Music Radio. Fernández, who is

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received 5-9 February 2018. Stephen Bement , 58, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, passed away 5 February. He was a minister, previously serving in Virginia. He is survived by his

South Side Church of the Nazarene in Muncie, Indiana, is changing the way it engages with its congregants by investing in a new discipleship program. They call it The Journey , a unique collection of Sunday School and Discipleship International's The Discipleship Place materials curated and edited

The Church of the Nazarene is providing assistance to evacuation centers after about 80,000 families living near the Philippines’ most active volcano were evacuated. Mount Mayon erupted 22 January in the province of Albay in the Philippines. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology