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A life with meaning

When I was 3 years old, my father got sick due to excessive smoking and passed away in the hospital. My mother was left with my two older sisters and me. We were living in United Arab Emirates (UAE) and my mother did not work back then. However, she had to find a job after the bank where we had put
15 Sep 2017
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Eurasia Nazarenes share experiences at GA, regional sites

Eurasia Regional Director Arthur Snijders speaks at the Global NMI Convention. On 23 June, Eurasia Regional Director Arthur Snijders shared stories of how local churches across Eurasia are rising to meet challenges like secularism, poverty, and the influx of refugees through the love of Christ when
28 Jul 2017
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Syrian refugee discovers Christ through Lebanon church

As Naseef helped his parents toil in the fields of the family farm in Syria, he dreamt of a different life. Someday, he told himself, he would become finance manager in a corporation. Naseef was well on his way to realizing his dream when he enrolled at university to study his passion: economics.
27 Jul 2017
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Shaping minds with knowledge and hearts with love

“Shaping minds with knowledge and hearts with love,” is the motto of the Nazarene Evangelical School. And that's not just empty words – it’s a vision made reality. But making this vision reality can only be done if everybody participates – teachers, students, administration – to turn their school
25 May 2017
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Giving our best

In Lebanon, it is not common for people to purchase second-hand items as a cost-savings method for acquiring new-to-you clothes, shoes, furniture or household items. People want the things they own to be new, one local friend told me. Thus, it’s hard to find second-hand or charity shops there. So,
11 Apr 2017
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Lebanon food ministry serves Syrian refugees, elderly residents

Five days a week, volunteers rub shoulders and bump elbows in the cramped, narrow kitchen next to the Achrafieh Church of the Nazarene. The volunteers cook about 100 hot, healthy meals for Syrian refugee students and neighborhood shut-ins, all of whom struggle to get adequate nutrition each week.
07 Apr 2017
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Nazarene youth leaders discuss new ministry methods at global gathering

Nazarene youth leaders from around the world attended the Lausanne Movement Younger Leaders Gathering. Nine youth leaders represented the Church of the Nazarene at the Lausanne Movement Younger Leaders Gathering this summer in Indonesia. The group connected with influential figures in youth
09 Dec 2016
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Lebanon churches invest in refugee children

If you've ever lived away from your home country, even if it was just for a semester abroad, you know how important it is to have a home away from home. A place where — even if you still miss your "real" home — you feel accepted as you are, with your differences appreciated, and where you are
08 Dec 2016
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Running for refugees: Nazarenes partner to fund education for Syrian children

On a warm morning in April, more than 2,500 kilometers away from Beirut, Lebanon, a handful of Nazarenes from Germany, Bulgaria, Moldova, Russia, the USA, and Ukraine joined 15,000 participants at the ‘START’ line of a track in Kyiv, Ukraine. Despite their diversity, the Nazarenes shared one common
22 Sep 2016
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Life of missionary, educator Gordon Johnston celebrated

Retired missionary Gordon Johnston passed away May 27. He was 77. Gordon and his wife, Pat, served the Church of the Nazarene in missions for 34 years in Lebanon, Jordan, and Papua New Guinea before retiring in June 2003. Gordon was an ordained minister, holding a bachelor’s degree from Pasadena
03 Jun 2016
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