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W. Kyle Poole was appointed superintendent of the Kansas City District on 17 September 2024. He has led the Georgia District as superintendent since 2018.

Kendall Franklin was appointed superintendent of the Kansas District . He currently serves as pastor of Woodland Lakes Community Church of the Nazarene in Wichita, Kansas.

Roger Hahn, 73, of Spring Hill, Kansas, passed away on 6 October 2023. He was the pastor of Overland Park Church of the Nazarene. He also served as an educator at Southern Nazarene University and Nazarene Theological Seminary.

Donald Crenshaw, 94, of Olathe, Kansas, passed away 4 May 2023. He was as a retired minister, evangelist, and missionary who served in Argentina from 1961 to 1967 and in the Dominican Republic from 1985 to 1994.

Multiple people were baptized last year in Mexico thanks to the ministry of their family member, Miguel Mendoza, who is the pastor of Hispanic Ministries at Shawnee Church of the Nazarene in Kansas.

Central Church of the Nazarene in Lenexa, Kansas, held its third annual Christmas Light Drive Thru, where over 2,000 people from the community came to experience the story of Jesus' birth told through lights and dramatization.

More than four times a week, Don Pardew makes his way out into the various homeless encampments in Kansas City, Missouri. He brings food, blankets, propane heaters, coats, and more to hand out through his ministry, I Have a Name or I.H.A.N. Pardew’s efforts began during the COVID-19 pandemic when he

The Kansas City Spanish School of Ministry has been raising Hispanic pastors on the Kansas City District since 2015. The school’s efforts have expanded to higher education with an aim to have 100 students by the district’s 100th anniversary in 2024.

Harvest House Food Pantry, a ministry of the Severy Church of the Nazarene in Severy, Kansas, gave away nearly 500 pounds of turkey on 18 November to nearly 200 families in the community.

Shawnee Church of the Nazarene will open a school this fall to meet the community’s new educational needs in the wake of the pandemic.