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Cross-cultural volunteering: 'Love is the number one language'

Anderson Martinez said he was willing to go anywhere he was needed, and that need was in Greece with a team serving refugees who fled violence and civil war in their countries. Martinez spent his summer break near Thessaloniki, where he visited refugees in their homes, helped them improve their
11 Apr 2017
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Mission briefing: Redemptive analogies

Missionaries Don and Carol Richardson seemed to be making no progress trying to share the gospel with a Stone Age tribe in New Guinea. The discouraged young Canadians felt like giving up and moving to a different place. Then, one day they watched the Sawi tribal chief make peace with an enemy tribe.
31 Mar 2017
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Open-door policy: Nashville First Church welcomes the city's immigrant community

The East Nashvillian photo In Nashville’s increasingly diverse culture quilt, it’s not unusual for a church to have one Sunday service in English and another service (often at the same time in an adjoining chapel, or room, or in the gym) for an immigrant community that has become an intrinsic part
30 Mar 2017
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As important as any other kids

“I found them last summer, looking through the trash for food,” Gesti, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene in Kombinat, Albania, told me in October 2015 as we were on our way to visit the child development centre that his congregation had established. “Two sisters and a brother; the oldest was 12
30 Mar 2017
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Tennessee church sends love to prisoners through Valentines

It all started about 10 years ago when Tish Ladd, a member of Waverly, Tennessee, Church of the Nazarene, told Pastor Daron Brown, “I feel like I need to go to the jail.” His shocked expression caused her to quickly add, “I feel like God is nudging me to go pray with the women.” Thus a jail ministry
16 Mar 2017
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Philippines church changes children's lives

Marvin, Princess, Joshua, and Althea The GMA Church of the Nazarene ministers to almost 200 children each week in the impoverished barangay (village) where the church is located. More than 10 percent of the children have been abandoned by their parents, including Marvin (age 10), Princess (age 9),
15 Mar 2017
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Mission briefing: Necessary qualities for local churches

More than 150 years ago, Anglican missionary strategist Henry Venn insisted that the churches resulting from foreign missionary work – including that of his own denomination, the Church of England – should be “indigenous” or “native” churches. That doesn’t sound all that revolutionary, does it?
14 Mar 2017
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Small Hawaii church making big waves in struggling community

Karli* first became a Christian at the age of 16, when her dad was in the military in Tennessee. At the age of 18, she moved to Hawaii and, as she drifted away from God, took a job dancing, which led her into prostitution for the next 20 years. But God had not drifted away from Karli. Through the
24 Feb 2017
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For youth in Manipur, 'everything we do must be based on prayer'

Thangchinkhup Singson is the district Nazarene Youth International president for Manipur in the far northeast corner of India. He brings to his position a comprehensive vision that has changed the way youth ministry is done on his district. His goal is to assist the 20 Churches of the Nazarene in
17 Feb 2017
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Argentina camp leaves youth 'On Fire' to influence communities

More than 400 young people from the Argentina Central District gathered January 27 through 29 for On Fire, a camp directed by district Nazarene Youth International president Juan Ignacio Marino and his team. The camp was centered on Leviticus 6:13: "The fire must be kept burning on the altar
10 Feb 2017
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