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Oklahoma church raises funds to repair vintage bus for youth ministry

Oklahoma City First Church of the Nazarene is looking to resurrect a very special bus that helped the church reach youth in need of spiritual development. The church at 4400 Northwest Expressway has a spiritual heritage that touched the lives of thousands of young people in Oklahoma City from the
28 Apr 2017
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'Suffering makes us equal': Disaster, spiritual relief in Chile

Chile faces frequent natural disasters because of seismic and volcanic activity. These include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and mega-fires. In 2010, a violent earthquake triggered several tsunamis, and in 2014 the country experienced a string of more than 300 earthquakes in one week.
26 Apr 2017
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'Are you willing to be healed?'

Mary, a staff member of Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Lanka (NCML), makes her own lunch every day before heading out to work. But she rarely gets to eat it. In her job as the local leader for compassionate ministry to laborers and their families in the Sri Lankan tea gardens of Pattana, Dimbulla
13 Apr 2017
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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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