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Retired missionary Juanita (Williams) Moon passed away 14 June. She was 93 years old. Juanita was born in La Junta, Colorado, in 1925. She accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior at age 4, sanctified as a teenager, and felt a call to missionary service while she was attending Pasadena College (now

For the past five years, Nazarene missionaries Irma and Mario Martinez have been ministering in Guinea Bissau. Four churches have been planted during their time serving, three of which are in rural communities. It’s estimated that only 10 percent of the population in Guinea Bissau is Christian, and

Retired missionary and minister Barbara Sage passed away 8 May. She was 72 years old. In 1968, Barbara married her husband, James Sage, and the two of them served together as missionaries in Zimbabwe for 11 years from 1977 to 1988. After returning to the USA, Barbara served as a part-time minister

Retired missionary Geraldine “Gerre” Hall passed away 7 May. She was 93 years old. Gerre married her husband, B. Maurice Hall, in 1948. They served together at two churches in Los Angeles, California, before they were appointed to their first missionary position in 1955. For the next 20 years, Gerre

The Church of the Nazarene in Botswana hosted its annual Easter conference 18-21 April. All churches and preaching points in the country came together to commemorate the holiday. The services were translated from Setswana to English to accommodate the Africa Regional Office representatives, Africa

Retired missionary Joan Esselstyn passed away 5 April. She was 85 years old. Joan was born in 1934 in Heidelberg Township, Pennsylvania, to Casper and Emma Kehm. After graduating from high school, Joan worked for several years for the American Bureau of Shipping before she felt God’s call to be a

After years of fighting a call to missions, Njeri and Evans finally took a leap of faith in obedience to God. They left Kenya to serve as missionaries in Ghana, where God provided a new loving support system like the one they were reluctant to leave behind in their home country. Njeri was always

Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall 15 March in Mozambique, leaving a trail of destruction that spread to neighboring Malawi and Zimbabwe and impacting millions of people. UN officials have said that this is likely the worst weather-related disaster ever to hit the southern hemisphere. More than 370

Retired missionary June Pauline Wallace of Largo, Florida, passed away 25 February. She was 101 years old. Pauline was born in Watsontown, Pennsylvania, 1 June 1917 to L. E. and Myrtle Bower. After high school, she attended Bible college where she met and later married her first husband, Armand Doll

The Church of the Nazarene was pleased to celebrate the ministry of retiring missionaries Bill and Marsha McCoy during the Commissioning Service at the 96th General Board meeting 25 February in Lenexa, Kansas. Bill and Marsha served as missionaries for eight years in Swaziland and 24 years in Papua