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A team of students from Point Loma Nazarene University recently traveled to the Philippines for a three-week LoveWorks mission trip. The students constructed two brand new playgrounds, restored part of a local church building, and built relationships with victims at the Shechem Home , a residential

Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary is currently accepting applications for the position of APNTS president in Manila, Philippines. The school is looking for a candidate with the following credentials: • Must be an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene • Must be a strategic thinker

Rebecca Kays, 52, passed away 20 June after a two-year battle with cancer. She was the wife of John Kays, senior pastor at Klamath Falls, Oregon, WestSide Community Church of the Nazarene. Rebecca grew up on her family farm west of Vale, and she graduated from Vale High School in 1985. She went on

More than 40 pastors and their spouses from Costa Rica’s two districts participated in a church multiplication event called Barnabas Initiative. Participants committed to completing several church growth projects, and each participant will continue to be trained and mentored to successfully finish

After several months of volunteer work, district support, and Alabaster funds, 17 Nazarene churches in Rwanda reopened. The churches had closed in 2018 after the government announced a new set of guidelines for buildings. Each congregation needed to remodel its building, including a new roof, new

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received 8-12 July 2019. Ronald Dech , 70, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, passed away 2 July. He was a retired minister, serving in Texas, Colorado, California, and Oklahoma. He

XZone is a ministry in Chesterfield, Virginia, that works to empower local youth who might feel unloved or neglected. Nearly every element of XZone’s approach comes out of the desire to reach more students through mentoring in afterschool, summer, and sports programs. “We exist because the teens in

Nearly 100 people from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, United States, and Honduras participated in a Maximum Mission community service project 28-30 June in La Ceiba, Honduras. The project gave participants the opportunity to experience cross-cultural ministry with people from many

Nazarenes in the News is a compilation of online news articles featuring Nazarene churches or church members. Medina woman’s decision benefited America’s youngest face-transplant recipient Medina, Ohio ( Akron Beacon Journal , 23 June) Sandra Bennington, a member at Medina Church of the Nazarene in

Retired missionary M. Gwendolyn Streight passed away 26 June. She was 90 years old. Gwendolyn was born in 1929 in Iowa, and she accepted Jesus as Lord at the age of 6 after her family moved to Idaho. When Gwendolyn was in high school, she was sanctified and began feeling a call to full-time missions