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General Superintendent J. K. Warrick announced the election of Philip Rhoades as superintendent of the Joplin District . Elected 1 June on the first ballot, Rhoades replaces Mark Bane, who resigned after four years in the position to lead Evangelism Ministries and New Church Development for the

Nazarenes in the News is a compilation of online news articles featuring Nazarene churches or church members. Students paired with senior adults in new, intergenerational emphasis Wichita, Kansas (1 February) A new emphasis on connecting senior adults and teenagers has taken root at Wichita First

Vernon Lunn, a lifelong Nazarene layman and General Board member for 24 years, passed away August 8. He was 93. Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, he was one of seven children born to Mervel and Alma Lunn. Vernon attended Westport High School in Kansas City and Pasadena Nazarene College (now

Kansas City, Kansas, Police Captain Robert "Dave" Melton, 46, was killed Tuesday while responding to a 911 call about a drive-by shooting . Melton and several other officers arrived at a public housing complex in Kansas City, Kansas, to confront a group of men firing shots from a car. As the

Nazarenes in the News is a compilation of online news articles featuring Nazarene churches or church members. Teree Settembrino’s passions now include doting on her husband, cooking for all of her friends, serving at her church and leading Celebrate Recovery. Arizona Nazarene a living testimony to

Nazarene minister, educator, and beloved leader Arnold Gordon Wetmore passed away June 9. He was 82. Wetmore was born on June 24, 1931, in New Brunswick, Canada. He received his undergraduate education at Eastern Nazarene College and earned the B.D. from Nazarene Theological Seminary in 1959. He

Madelyn Hurn, widow of retired General Superintendent Raymond Hurn, passed away January 11 at age 93. She was born February 13, 1922, in Stafford, Kansas, the third of four children. Madelyn attended Bresee College, where she met her husband. The couple was married December 30, 1941, and began

A new book, Naztoons , looks at the Church of the Nazarene through a collection of cartoons by artist Dave Anderson. Anderson, a 40-year-employee of the Church of the Nazarene International Headquarters/Global Ministry Center, takes a "tongue-in-cheek" approach to life, which he illustrates in each

Psychologists call Internet pornography the “new crack cocaine” and youth are especially vulnerable in today’s cyber-saturated society. One in every three teens access pornographic Web sites intentionally and many others access these sites accidentally — 40 percent of these hits are innocent and

Inversion Productions won a 2011 Telly Award for its short film about a man whose life was changed through the Church of the Nazarene. Inversion , based in Olathe, Kansas, produced five Resurrection Stories for Grace and Peace Magazine and were highlighted each night at the Church of the Nazarene's