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Pastor Paul Spanos of Thornbury Community Church , a Church of the Nazarene located in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, walked into the local council a few years ago and asked how the church could be of help to the needy in the neighborhood. They directed him to the social building where he met the

Benaia Freire Furtado had already been through a lot when she was first sponsored as a child in Brazil. Her father had recently died, preceded by a close friend only six months before. She had also moved with her mother and brother to a new city, where they didn’t have friends or family. She was

Despite the war that gripped *Lela’s country for many years, she and her husband had never thought of leaving. They were happy as part of their church’s thriving ministry to the many refugees who had fled fighting to find peace in their area. Then, their family was threatened. A masked person

A group of Korean families were looking for a temporary pastor to help them form a church in Manchester, England. That word spread from Manchester to a contact in London and back to Manchester, where Eun Ho Kim and MiJa Wi were approached this past January while still involved at Nazarene

A four-person church plant that began meeting in a garage just two years ago has grown to 500 members and moved to its own building with room to continue adding new people to its church family. Pastor Ricardo Carvalho was discipling a small group as part of his obedience to God’s call to ministry on

About 30 years ago, missiologist Luis Bush coined the phrase “10/40 Window.” He did that to focus attention on a specific area of the world where millions of people have little or no access to the gospel. Bush asked believers to draw an imaginary rectangle on the globe, from 10 degrees north of the

What do you imagine when you think of "children’s church"? Most people picture a group of children being led in worship and other activities by adults, but the GMA Church of the Nazarene in Cavite, Philippines, has changed that picture. Nerry and Ivan are two of the leaders of Children’s Church at

Globalization became a hot topic in the 1980s. It still is. If you search for “globalization” on the Internet, Google will give you 42 million web pages to read. Conversations about globalization bring to mind beverage, clothing, and electronics brands sold worldwide, as well as identical

Phyllis Perkins Howard passed away 12 September in Nampa, Idaho, at age 83. She was a former missionary and director of Nazarene World Mission Society (now Nazarene Missions International), as well as a retired educator. “Phyllis graced the office I now hold as global NMI director, and we feel her

Almost a dozen years ago, “to make Christlike disciples in the nations” became the officially stated mission of the Church of the Nazarene. Of course, while that exact wording may be somewhat recent, what it says is not. Global outreach has been in Nazarene DNA from the very beginning. Our mission