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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*.

More than 3,500 Ethiopian Nazarenes traveled to a national conference for the Church of the Nazarene, held in the southern city of Hawasa from 12-14 May 2023.

The Ethiopia National Church of the Nazarene partnered with the Creative Leadership Institute of Ethiopia for a seminar held in May that was attended by 75 representatives at the district level from around the country.

A total of 103 African men and women were ordained at services held across the continent from 5 — 20 March 2022. The district of Senegal ordained its first ministers in nearly a decade.

Nazarene Children for Christ Ministries for East Africa, a discipleship ministry that works in six countries, is using social media and messaging applications to continue teaching children throughout the pandemic.

The summer of 2017 has had more than its share of natural disasters: Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, earthquakes in Mexico, mudslides in Sierra Leone, floods in India and Bangladesh, unprecedented property damage, and an ongoing loss of life. Human migration, driven by war, disease, disaster,

Extreme drought, violent conflict, and scarcity have created a food crisis that is making it nearly impossible for people in East Africa to get the food they need to survive. Famine has already been declared in South Sudan . Severe drought in other countries, including Kenya , Ethiopia , and Somalia

Children from the Church of the Nazarene's Gambella district pose for a photo (Katy Rodebush photo). More than 200 people are dead and at least 145 children were abducted during an April 15 raid in the Gambella province of Ethiopia. Many of the victims are Nazarenes. Gambella is home to one of the

Ermias and Mulu Choliye (left) lead refugee ministries in east Africa. Designer Uwizeya Marie Clementine (right) teaches refugee women marketable skills, such as bead work. Ethiopian missionaries Ermias Mekuria and Mulu Meseret Choliye, who recently moved to Nairobi, Kenya, are ministering to

Rev. Nguth (center) gathers with brothers and sisters and a new refugee settlement in Ethiopia in January. (Photos: John Yual Nguth) Thousands of people have fled from heavy fighting and food shortages in South Sudan to seek safety in neighboring countries. John Yual Nguth, the Nazarene mission