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Beginning 7 January, a series of devastating wildfires scorched communities in the Los Angeles, California, area, causing the deaths of at least 25 people and forcing the evacuation of close to 180,000 people from their homes. Here's how Nazarenes are responding to the crisis.

Over 240 participants and volunteers gathered at Third Wave 2025 in Orlando and Lake Placid, Florida from 7-13 January 2025, for a time of worship, training, and equipping for leadership. A total of 51 different countries and 23 different languages were represented among those present.

On Monday, 13 January 2025, 80 new believers were baptized in the Nile River in South Sudan, the same Nile River where the baby Moses was drawn up out of the water and saved for a greater purpose. These new believers are from the New Life Church of the Nazarene in Juba South, South Sudan.

Since September 1, 2009, the Church of the Nazarene's Global Ministry Center (GMC) proudly flies a flag each week of one of the many nations in which the denomination is present in ministry. Leaders were invited to send a national flag to be flown at the GMC alongside the flag of the United States*.

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received 23 December 2024 - 10 January 2025.

Since September 1, 2009, each week the Church of the Nazarene's Global Ministry Center (GMC) proudly flies a flag of one of the many nations in which the denomination is present in ministry. This week's flag: Nicaragua, Mesoamerica Region.

From 16-23 December 2024, a youth team from Aletheia Church of the Nazarene in Papua, Indonesia, carried out a missions trip in Sorong City in collaboration with the El-Shadai Church of the Nazarene in Sorong City.

The House of Mercy ministries, located in a small village outside Odesa, Ukraine, as become a beacon of light for over 40 individuals internally displaced due to the war or needing rehabilitation services.

Stephen D. Rhoades was appointed superintendent of the Georgia District on 2 January 2025. Rhoades currently pastors Fort Meyers First Church of the Nazarene in Florida.

Jason A. Caddy was appointed superintendent of the North Carolina District on 2 January 2025. Caddy currently pastors Columbia Grace Church of the Nazarene in Columbia, Tennessee.