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Tim Brewer was elected superintendent of the Missouri District on 2 June 2025. He has served as the pastor of Ontario Church of the Nazarene in Oregon since 2006.

Compiled by the General Secretary's Office from district reports, Moving Ministers is a monthly listing of Nazarene ministers in new assignments on the USA/Canada Region.

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*.

Andrew Dayton was elected superintendent of the Northeast Indiana District on 17 May 2025. Dayton has pastored Indianapolis First Church of the Nazarene since 2020.

Lay ministry leaders at Columbia Grace Church of the Nazarene in Tennessee have found a sense of pride and ownership in their local ministry and personal life thanks to The Discipleship Place and the Certificate of Lay Ministry course.

Eduardo “Eddie” Jiménez was appointed superintendent of the Texas-Oklahoma Latin District. He currently serves as pastor of the San Antonio Las Palmas Church of the Nazarene.

Brent Deakins was elected superintendent of the Intermountain District on 8 May 2025. He currently serves as the assistant superintendent of the Intermountain District.

The Kansas District is encouraging and equipping its churches' lay leadership through a lay ministry academy. While organizers expected to have around 30 attendees, 75 lay leaders traveled from across the district to attend the day-long academy in Pratt, Kansas.

Robert “Bob” Leroy Woodruff, 77, of Hamilton Hill, Australia, passed away 10 April 2025. He was a retired missionary and educator who served for five decades in Papua New Guinea, Australia, Germany, and Kenya.

The West Texas District elected Timothy P. Kellerman 10 April 2025 to serve as its new superintendent. Kellerman currently serves as the superintendent of the Northeastern Indiana District, a role he has held since 2020.