
Child development centers in Sri Lanka continue serving amid pandemic
Staff at Nazarene child development centers in Sri Lanka have been going above and beyond to help care for their students during the pandemic.

Staff at Nazarene child development centers in Sri Lanka have been going above and beyond to help care for their students during the pandemic.

In October’s edition of Nazarenes in the News, a church in Canada received an award for its after-school program, Olivet inaugurated their new president and a Missouri church is addressing local food issues.

Kazatin Church of the Nazarene in Ukraine creatively assisted their community during the pandemic, distributing food, continuing their rehabilitation program for addicts, and offering an alternative education program for the town.

Donna Lovett, 74, of Kankakee, Illinois, passed away 7 August 2021. She served as a missionary to Italy, France, Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Rwanda, and Kenya.

In August 2020, a massive explosion devastated the port of Beirut in Lebanon, killing more than 200 people, injuring thousands, and displacing tens of thousands. Now, a year after the explosion, an ongoing economic crisis that started in 2019 has reached a breaking point.

Nazarenes from six different countries on the Eurasia Region came together to teach English and minister at a children’s camp in Poland in an expression of cooperation and partnership.

Ashrafieh Church of the Nazarene in Jordan closed its doors for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The church was able to re-open on Pentecost Sunday, and they are celebrating growth upon entering a new season.

The Global Nazarene Education Consortium met for its quadrennial conference 23-24 June 2021 to discuss borderless education and life-span education. Sixty-two participants from the denomination’s 51 higher education institutions attended the two-day online conference.

Jay Hartzler, a retired teacher who moved to Romania as a volunteer missionary, partnered with Tigmandru Church of the Nazarene to turn his longtime woodworking hobby into employment for people in a village where work is hard to come by.

Deaths due to COVID-19 in India have nearly tripled in the last three weeks and reached more than 3,600 in the last 24 hours. The true death toll is believed to be much higher.