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From 16-23 December 2024, a youth team from Aletheia Nazarene Church of the Nazarene in Papua, Indonesia, carried out a missions trip in Sorong City in collaboration with the El-Shadai Church of the Nazarene in Sorong City.

The House of Mercy ministries, located in a small village outside Odesa, Ukraine, as become a beacon of light for over 40 individuals internally displaced due to the war or needing rehabilitation services.

Stephen D. Rhoades was appointed superintendent of the Georgia District on 2 January 2024. Rhoades currently pastors Fort Meyers First Church of the Nazarene in Florida.

Jason A. Caddy was appointed superintendent of the North Carolina District on 2 January 2024. Caddy currently pastors Columbia Grace Church of the Nazarene in Columbia, Tennessee.

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.

The Church of the Nazarene welcomed a number of new leaders at the global and regional levels in 2024. Five new leaders were elected to lead: Global Missions, Nazarene Discipleship International (NDI), Nazarene Missions International (NMI), the Eurasia Region, and the Asia-Pacific Region.

On that first Christmas night, Jesus entered his world in humility, bringing light into darkness and hope into despair. Today, his presence continues to offer new life and redemption to all.

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received 16-20 December 2024.

The Board of General Superintendents (BGS) announced the election of Cheryl Crouch as the next global director of Nazarene Missions International (NMI), effective 1 June 2025. Cheryl will follow Lola Brickey, who served as global NMI director for the last ten years.

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*.