The Board of General Superintendents voted to move Sunday School and Discipleship Ministries International and Nazarene Youth International to Global Mission, effective April 1, 2012.

Currently both ministries report to the Board of General Superintendents through the BGS chair. With this decision, SDMI and NYI will now join the Global Mission team and work with the newly-elected Global Mission director, Verne Ward III. This will provide SDMI and NYI with a global connection.

The change for these two long-standing ministries in the Church of the Nazarene comes after several years of review by the BGS. 

“This takes into account a multi-year revisioning of the Global Ministry Center, the BGS White Paper on the Nazarene Future, a Global Ministry Task Force recommendation, and anticipation of General Board Bylaw changes, which were approved on Saturday, February 25, 2012," BGS Chair J. K. Warrick said.

“We envision the majority of time for SDMI and NYI directors being spent within the USA/Canada Region while helping strengthen these networks among all Global Mission regions,” he continued. “SDMI and NYI will remain part of the Global Mission team at the GMC.”

The BGS also voted to have Global Clergy Development and the International Board of Education, both headed by Dan Copp, to report directly to the Board of General Superintendents through the BGS chair assigned to the Global Ministry Center.
--Board of General Superintendents