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Nazarenes in the News is a compilation of online news articles featuring Nazarene churches or church members. This edition is for stories in June 2020.

After serving “The Hill” community for 90 years, the congregation at Steubenville First Church of the Nazarene realized their time as a church was over. As they searched for someone to buy the church building, they connected with a congregation who had a passion for the community.

When Glendora Community Church of the Nazarene was unable to travel to Chuuk for a missions trip due to the COVID-19 pandemic, team members quickly revised their plans to make the most of the situation.

When interest in Shepherdsville First Church of the Nazarene's food pantry more than tripled, the church decided to embrace COVID-19 not as a crisis but an opportunity to serve the community.

Andrew Twibell, pastor of Kankakee First Church of the Nazarene, passed away 8 June 2020 after a long battle with cancer. He was 36 years old.

Mark K. Lehman has been appointed superintendent for the Southwest Oklahoma District. He currently pastors Sutter Creek Church of the Nazarene in California.

Matt Woodley, a missionary doctor serving at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital in Papua New Guinea, recently spent three weeks working at a field hospital in New York City's Central Park treating COVID-19 positive patients.

Compiled by the General Secretary's Office from district reports, Moving Ministers is a monthly listing of Nazarene ministers in new assignments on the USA/Canada Region.

Kenmore Community Church of the Nazarene should be on a missions trip to Nicaragua this week. Instead, the church has been using the supplies they gathered for the trip to fill needs in their local community. When the coronavirus pandemic closed down most of the United States, leadership at Kenmore

Statesville Church of the Nazarene has ministered to local veterans in a variety of ways over the past 20 years, and Pastor Frank Turner has sought ways to continue that ministry amid the COVID-19 outbreak. One of the church’s main outreaches is a bi-weekly food pantry that is part of the Piedmont