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Pastor Yuri, founder of a Russian YouTube channel with an evangelistic focus, is seeing his vision for online outreach and worship embraced by thousands of pastors and churches as pandemic conditions drive them to “digital spaces.”

After years of ministry in Russia, Luca* and Elena* moved to another former Soviet country in early 2017 to serve a new city. Shortly after they arrived, a young adult ministry team in Germany called paXan reached out to them in hopes of collaborating. paXan is a joint effort by Nazarene Youth

Olga and Aleksei have long served the Church of the Nazarene from their home in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The couple worked with European Nazarene College in theological education, and Aleksei was also involved in their local church as a Sunday School teacher. It wasn’t until two years ago that they

Until only a couple of years ago, there were no Wesleyan academic commentaries available in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a confederation of 15 Eurasian countries that are part of the former Soviet Union. Global Missions Director Verne Ward presents General Superintendent (and former

Elena Shestakova was taking an online class through European Nazarene College (EuNC) when her pregnancy was stricken with complications. Doctors confined her to a hospital bed for several weeks to protect the health of both her and her child. Fortunately for Shestakova, her class was offered online.

They cower in the shadow of the bridge leading across the railroad tracks, barely raising their eyes when steps approach, mumble a few words and stare at the coins in their hands. Others sit in the yard behind the homeless shelter, seeking cover from the burning sun, and wait for the long, empty day

On a warm morning in April, more than 2,500 kilometers away from Beirut, Lebanon, a handful of Nazarenes from Germany, Bulgaria, Moldova, Russia, the USA, and Ukraine joined 15,000 participants at the ‘START’ line of a track in Kyiv, Ukraine. Despite their diversity, the Nazarenes shared one common

What would it look like to double the number of Nazarene churches in the CIS Field (Commonwealth of Independent States) in the next 15 years? So far, it’s looking like families moving into cities and countries where the denomination does not yet have a presence, and in some cases drawing on the

The Russian Embassy in Cuba gave a 29-passenger Toyota Coaster bus to the Church of the Nazarene in Cuba, reports Bob Prescott, coordinator of partnerships for the Church of the Nazarene's Mesoamerica Region. The like-new van has just 81,000 miles (130,000 kilometers) on it, along with a new set of