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General Superintendent Gustavo A. Crocker announced the appointment this week of Jesse C. Middendorf as interim superintendent of the Kansas City District. Middendorf follows Jeren Rowell, who was recently elected president of Nazarene Theological Seminary . The appointment is effective 1 December,

Left: Lesotho District Secretary Lebina Lebina Right: Lesotho District Superintendent Lepeli Mpusi The Church of the Nazarene's Africa Region office provided the following information after the death of two leaders on the Lesotho District: It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing

This summer, I went as a volunteer missionary to Serbia for about five weeks with Courage for the Journey , a Nazarene initiative to support refugee aid work in Central Europe . During our first couple days, my team and I were asking for directions to the local Western Union in Belgrade when I first

General Superintendent Carla D. Sunberg announced the appointment of Virgil Askren III as superintendent of the South Arkansas District . Askren currently pastors the Bend, Oregon, Church of the Nazarene. He follows Russell Branstetter, who retired after 25 years in the position. Prior to accepting

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received 13-17 November 2017. Robert Carson , 83, of Vilonia, Arkansas, passed away 9 November. He was a retired minister, serving in Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas. He was

People often think the feelings arising in encounters with strange foods or customs constitute “culture shock.” In reality, those brief moments of discomfort are not what anthropologists mean by culture shock. Anthropologists and psychologists use “culture shock” to describe the confusion, doubt,

Southern Nazarene University inaugurated J. Keith Newman as the university's 15th president 9 November with a host of esteemed guests and honorees present for the historic ceremony. Newman, who assumed office 1 August, was elected president by the university’s Board of Trustees in March of this year

A group of Korean families were looking for a temporary pastor to help them form a church in Manchester, England. That word spread from Manchester to a contact in London and back to Manchester, where Eun Ho Kim and MiJa Wi were approached this past January while still involved at Nazarene

The Trevecca Nazarene University Board of Trustees recently approved a resolution to create a joint task force that will determine the next steps in a potential merger with Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts. The resolution to form the joint task force came as a recommendation from

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received 6-10 November 2017. Doris (Dickson) Anderson , 87, of West Liberty, Ohio, passed away 6 November. She was a retired missionary, serving in India. She was preceded in