Nazarenes in the News is a compilation of online news articles featuring Nazarene churches or church members. 

New provincial hospital for Jiwaka Province

Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea

(EM TV, 22 April) Kudjip Nazarene Hospital is the new Provincial Hospital for Jiwaka Province.

Health Minister, Michael Malabag, officially declared and signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the Jiwaka Provincial Government, National Health Department and the Nazarene Health Services.

Three health centres were also declared.

Jiwaka Governor, Dr William Tongap, said the Kudjip Provincial Hospital will still be managed and run by the Nazarene Health Service.

He said the church has successfully run the facility for the past 60 years and it will be injustice to build a new provincial hospital.

For the rest of this story and video, click here. 

West Virginia church gives away 200 free pizzas and JESUS films

Teays Valley, West Virginia

West Virginia's Teays Valley Church of the Nazarene wanted to give something to their community Easter weekend that would be a visual of the true meaning of Easter.

"We are located directly on Teays Valley Road, which is a prime spot during high traffic hours," said Lead Pastor Charles Williams. "We came up with the idea to literally 'take the gospel to the streets' and partnered with one of our local pizza places to hand out 200 whole pizzas, along with 200 JESUS films."

The outreach was an opportunity to provide "dinner and a movie" on Maundy Thursday that got the message and gospel out beyond the church congregation.

For the rest of this story and slideshow, click here. 

For ONU baseball coach, faith, humility (and winning) come with the job

Bourbonnais, Illinois

(Kankakee Times, 14 April) Just call Todd Reid the humble winner.

On the one hand, Reid is good at amassing victories: He recently set the record for the most coaching wins in Olivet Nazarene University (ONU) baseball history, with 304. On the other hand, he doesn't want the attention, preferring it be focused on his players or the chance to talk about his predecessor and previous all-time wins leader Elliot Johnson

Or even that Reid's record also includes more than 300 losses.

“All it means really to me is that I'm getting old,” Reid told the Kankakee Times after his 300th win.

For the rest of this story about the former Eastern Nazarene College coach and Mount Vernon Nazarene University student, click here. 

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