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Allan Prado was elected the 12th president of Philippine Nazarene College on 7 November. Prado has been the officer in charge at PNC for the past three years. He is currently completing his doctorate in educational leadership and management at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. He holds

Nearly 500 Nazarenes from throughout the Asia-Pacific Region gathered in the hills of northern Thailand to worship together and equip themselves for making Christlike disciples. The 2019 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, held October 18-22 near Chiang Mai, featured powerful worship, challenging

Doris Davis, 99, of Hilliard, Ohio, passed away 14 October 2019. She was a retired missionary, serving the Church of the Nazarene in Japan for 35 years. Doris was born in Tokyo, Japan, 6 December 1919. She was the second child of Free Methodist missionaries Henry Wagner and Gladys Wagner. As

Adeline Lois Owens, pioneer missionary to Korea and wife of General Superintendent Emeritus Donald Owens, passed away 26 September 2019 at the age of 89. She was born 3 March 1930 in Augusta, Kansas, and grew up in Wichita, Kansas. In 1949, Adeline enrolled at Bethany-Peniel College (now Southern

The Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary Board of Trustees appointed Randall “Randy” Lee James as the vice president of institutional advancement 12 September. “After learning of our needs for U.S.-based support, Randy agreed to come on board as a volunteer and received APNTS Board of Trustees

Korea Nazarene University celebrated the inauguration of its eighth president, David Kyungsoo Kim, this week with more than 500 attendees. Kim, a professor at Korea Nazarene University, was elected July 29th and succeeds Im Seung-an, who has served in the position since February 2016. Kim earned a

More than 50 young people aged 12 to 17 years old gathered together to learn and be in community at the “Born to Lead” summit for pastors’ children. The summit follows iLEAD, a 2018 youth leadership summit attended by 130 children from Nazarene child development centers. Both events are part of a

Alofagia "Alofa" Eli-Nofoa, pastor of the Blazing Torch Nazarene Fellowship church plant in Auckland, New Zealand, passed away 2 September at the age of 53. “Pastor Alofagia, as a pastor on the Auckland South Network, had an inquiring mind who asked good questions of church process," said Bruce

The Philippine-Micronesia Field held Nazarene Discipleship Summits on every district to teach, train, and equip Nazarene members to make Christlike disciples in their sphere of influence through small groups. Each summit included plenary sessions and workshops on topics such as starting and leading

Ricareda “Rica” Verceles Valuenzuela, the first woman to be ordained in the Church of the Nazarene in the Philippines, passed away 21 August at the age of 81. Born on 18 April 1938, Ricareda Verceles was the daughter of the late Francisco T. and Adriana O. Verceles. She was raised in a strict Roman