Around 80 youths serving as local presidents, board members, and emerging leaders from different Nazarene churches in the Java-Bali District gathered at the Indonesia Nazarene Bible College Campus from 29 June –to 1 July for spiritual strengthening, reconnecting, and equipping.
Korea Nazarene University organized a Nazarene Missions Team of 12 students and three faculty members to conduct a Language and Culture Exchange Camp in a Thai-Chinese school
Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Philippines, along with the disaster response team from the Bicol District, provided immediate help for families forced to evacuate due to the threat of the Mayon Volcano eruption. The relief operation was carried out on 28 June 2023.
The Asia-Pacific Region Nazarene Youth International (NYI) gathered 60 delegates from four fields to participate virtually in the 25th Global NYI Conventions 9-12 June 2023.
10 students and faculty from Point Loma Nazarene University came to the Philippines as part of the LoveWorks team.
The Bicol District welcomed the first Work & Witness team post-COVID-19 to serve their district and the community in Bicol, Philippines. 3 members from the Grace Point Church of the Nazarene in Albany, Oregon, traveled to Legazpi City to partner with the district on a project to build a new district parsonage.
George Miller, 72, of Carnegie, Oklahoma, passed away 28 May 2023. He was a retired missionary who served for 27 years in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Philippines. Miller was the pastor of Carnegie Church of the Nazarene at the time of his death.
John Mann Nielson passed away 28 April 2023 at the age of 79. He served as a pastor, missionary, educator, and administrator, including as president of Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary and director of Ministerial Development for the Church of the Nazarene’s International Headquarters.
After eight years of closure, South Pacific Nazarene Theological College reopened in January 2023. SPNTC aims to have 50 pastors graduate with a Certificate in Ministry in the next two years as the Solomon Island District seeks to promote growth.
Two cyclones devastated the island of Vanuatu in April. The disaster response team led by Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Asia-Pacific among others is distributing relief items to the various local churches and communities in Vanuatu.
