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

Minnesota ministry brings comfort to cancer families

Rochester, Minnesota

(The Dispatch, February 1) Under the most devastating circumstances, I was blessed to fall under the wings of two angels.

Linda and Rick Day run the Nazarene Well House in Rochester, Minnesota, offering support to cancer patients being treated at the Mayo Clinic and their families. On the recommendation of the American Cancer Society, I reserved a room at the bed-and-breakfast for the night before I was to go undergo my cancer surgery.

The experience became even tougher when my husband fell violently ill the morning we were to leave, and I was forced to ask my 17-year-old son, Michael, to drive me. However, fears of leaving him on his own during my surgery quickly dissipated upon meeting the “grandparents” at the Nazarene Well House.

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Texas church offers free home repairs

Lufkin, Texas

(KTRE, January 30) A Texas church is offering free home repairs to those in need.

“I feel happy,” Ruby Samuel, a Lufkin homeowner said.

Samuel is just one of three East Texans who said their prayers have been answered.

“There’s a smile on her face, a twinkle in her eye,” Pastor Don Schultheis, with Lufkin First Church of the Nazarene, said. “I think she’s thrilled to see total strangers under the umbrella of God’s kingdom to make a difference in her life.”

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Oklahoma pastor invests in students through running program

Ardmore, Oklahoma

(The Daily Ardmoreite, January 31) Girls on the Run of Southern Oklahoma is looking for a few good women (or men) to pick up the mantle of role model and coach a team of young girls this season.

The program began in 2013 and since then has served 400 young women, providing confidence and mentoring in addition to fitness.

The program is divided into two seasons with a 5K run serving as the completion of each season. The spring season ends with the Girls on the Run 5K and one-mile run during the Corporate Fitness Challenge. The fall season wraps up with a 5K run in the Chigger Chase. But for the organization, it is about the journey as much as the destination.

“I wish this was something we had when I was a girl,” Dee Boyt, a coach and pastor of Church of the Nazarene, said. “It provides skills to interact with other people. We are preparing them to finish a 5K by the end of the season but there is so much more than that.”

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Wesleyan theologians gather in the Bahamas for memorial conference

Nassau, Bahamas

(The Nassau Guardian, December 31) A group of Christians in the Wesleyan/Methodist tradition will convene at a conference early in the new year to commemorate the 225th death anniversary of Reverand Father John Wesley, a co-founder of Methodism who was also an evangelical preacher and priest. Wesley was a social reformer who established schools, empowered the poor, cared for the sick, and encouraged the abolition of slavery. 

In the 1700s when land travel was by walking, horseback, or carriage, Wesley was said to have logged more than 40,000 miles a year. It is said that during his lifetime he preached about 40,000 sermons. 

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