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Pastor Justin Oberndorfer and his wife, Sarah, of Gracepoint Church of the Nazarene in Shawnee, Kansas, are working to build a foster care community in Basehor — a small town on the outskirts of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Responding to the foster care shortage in Kansas , the Oberndorfers

Retired missionary Geraldine “Gerre” Hall passed away 7 May. She was 93 years old. Gerre married her husband, B. Maurice Hall, in 1948. They served together at two churches in Los Angeles, California, before they were appointed to their first missionary position in 1955. For the next 20 years, Gerre

The Well Health Center was built last year and opened in January after the Church of the Nazarene in Cactus, Texas , saw a need for health care in the Cactus community. The church already offered English as a Second Language classes, community outreach initiatives, and immigration and civics

Hundreds of Nazarenes of all ages took to the streets 29 April in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to share the Gospel for an Urban Invasion event themed A Genesis For Our Churches. Global Missions and the Genesis Initiative promoted the event in the Central District, and the objective was to

Photo by Andrew Shiva , used under CC BY-SA 4.0 , cropped from original When Annabelle Twal moved with her family from Switzerland to Jerusalem, Israel, in 2014, she did not think that God would make use of her fluency in German to help start a new work. After they arrived, Annabelle and her husband

Nearly 70 homes were destroyed 30 April in a landslide that swept through La Paz, Bolivia. Major city roads have been closed off, more than 300 people are sleeping in tents at a local soccer field, and four people remain missing and are presumed to be trapped in the debris. The local Church of the

Nearly 15 people attended an author workshop 23-25 April in Pilar, Argentina. The workshops covered editing, research, the qualities and disciplines of good authors, use of social networks, and unique tools and technology to help authors. The global Nazarene literature ministries, South American

After someone overdosed in the parking lot of the New Beginning Nazarene Church in Mount Airy, Maryland, church leaders decided something needed to be done. It wasn’t the first time an incident like this had happened, but the church is working to make sure it was the last. The congregation hosted an

Approximately 80 leaders and pastors from the Puerto Rico West District attended crisis management and suicide prevention conferences 27 April. Both events took place in the El Cotto First Church of the Nazarene in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The district Nazarene Compassionate Ministries team sponsored

Nazarenes in the News is a compilation of online news articles featuring Nazarene churches or church members. Trevecca student with autism graduates after 12 years Nashville, Tennessee ( Tennessean , 10 May) Brian Schnelle has autism. At 31 years old, he still lives with his parents. He can't care