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What would it look like to double the number of Nazarene churches in the CIS Field (Commonwealth of Independent States) in the next 15 years? So far, it’s looking like families moving into cities and countries where the denomination does not yet have a presence, and in some cases drawing on the

Can – or should – Christians do non-evangelistic events for the community? This was the question the leaders of Kyiv First Church of the Nazarene discussed as they planned an event together with Kirche in Aktion (KiA), a Nazarene church in Frankfurt, Germany. About three years ago, Kyiv First Church

The seaside city of Odessa, Ukraine, is known as a resort town. Its health sanatoriums were designed to be places of rest and recovery, where residents could relax, recreate, and in some cases receive short-term medical services. But in the gray winter months of 2016, one sanatorium outside the city

The late 1990s in Ukraine were marked by deep economic, political, and social crisis. Corruption and crime were prospering. Alcohol and drug addiction got a firm hold of an alarmingly large percentage of society. In 1999, Roman Lebedev (photo right, with family) was a staff member of an alcohol and

Lonnie Norris, former missionary to Russia, will serve as field strategy coordinator for the Commonwealth of Independent States Field as of June 1. Norris and his wife, Connie, will move to Kiev, Ukraine, in the next few months. The Norrises served in Volgograd, Russia, from 1993 to 2000, where they