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Dr Samuel Hynd (left) with business mogul Natie Kirsh in an undated picture. ( Swazi Observer photo) Dr Samuel Hynd, a longtime Scottish missionary to Swaziland, passed away August 18 at the age of 91. Hynd was born on 19 December 1924 in the home of his grandfather, George Sharpe, the founder of

Liberia was ravaged by the Ebola crisis as well as civil wars over the last decades, reducing the male population. Many women must now provide for their families. In partnership with Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, the Nazarene Women's Project has been in operation since 2001. Edith N'Boyou, a

Zimbabwe West District Superintendent A. Nyoni In 2002, Noah Sibanda graduated from Africa Nazarene University in Nairobi, Kenya, with a master's degree in religion. In August of that same year, Sibanda returned to his home country of Zimbabwe, where Zimbabwe West District Superintendent A. Nyoni

Africa Regional Director Filimao Chambo shared the following tribute to his father, Rev. Manuel Filimao Tsambe Chambo: Grieving and celebrating a life well-lived! My dad, Rev. Manuel Filimao Tsambe Chambo, has passed into glory on 4 August 2016. He was 78 years old. I sure would have loved to have

Water, sanitation, and hygiene are essential for healthy living, but in Sierra Leone and Liberia, these basics are not a given. In Sierra Leone, a 2012 survey of 28,000 water points conducted by the government’s Ministry of Water Resources showed that 52 percent of peo­ple in rural areas have no

Tee Latahn, a Nazarene pastor, school director, and radio host, lives in Karnplay, Liberia. He is from the Dan people group and speaks the Dan language. His congregation also speaks Dan, as do 5,000 Nazarenes on his district, plus an estimated 60,000 to 70,000 people in Liberia, and more outside of

A South Sudan child prays for peace. John Yual Nguth, a Church of the Nazarene missionary on the Africa East Field, recently provided an update on the situation in South Sudan. "We have been praying for South Sudan for three years, since civil war broke out in December 2013," he said. "There has

In Zimbabwe's Gweru Province, times are tough. Southern Africa experienced a severe drought this past summer, and the Gweru Province is no different. Food instability caused by the drought has affected the provincial hospital's ability to feed its patients. Pastor Noah Sibanda from Gweru on the

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

Retired missionary Loretta Faye (Allen) Riley passed away May 2. She was 80. Faye was born in Stacy Fork, Kentucky, February 8, 1936. She was a graduate of Mount Carmel High School and Kentucky Mountain Bible College, Alton Memorial Hospital, Greenville College, and Indiana University. During her