Shechem Children’s Home brings Christmas hope to residents
Every year, the celebration of Christmas brings hope to many people. Likewise, Shechem Children’s Home has been sharing and giving hope.
Every year, the celebration of Christmas brings hope to many people. Likewise, Shechem Children’s Home has been sharing and giving hope.
Super Typhoon Rai (known locally as Odette) made landfall in the Philippines on 16 December 2021. Volunteers with Nazarene Disaster Response on the ground have distributed food packs, clothes, hygiene kits, and flashlights and have established water filtration centers in strategic areas.
During the Philippines celebration of National Heroes Day, a local Work & Witness team served the people of Batangas City Church of the Nazarene. The team repaired and renovated the church and parsonage and assisted during a feeding program that provided meals for 130 children.
The Philippines-Micronesia Field office led a team on a weekend missions trip to the Pampanga Province in the Philippines, visiting two churches and distributing supplies the communities needed.
Thailand missionaries Terence and Ingrid Lustaña organize online vigils every other Friday for two hours as a way for the church in Thailand to show its support for its neighbors in Myanmar.
Amid the challenges of the pandemic, five new churches were organized in the Philippines in one month, including four that planted by one church.
Camias Church of the Nazarene opened an educational center and offered resources the community had never experienced to help children and their parents adjust to the shift from face-to-face to online or modular classes.
TEACH Ormoc in the Philippines is supporting children and families in the community by providing printed copies of modules from the community school and tutorials for neighborhood children.
Arnel Piliin has been appointed the new field strategy coordinator for Philippines-Micronesia. He will succeed Stephen Gualberto, who has served in the role since 2011.
Christine Dialing, a Nazarene missionary serving in Thailand, recently used a squid ink painting to help fund her ministry. Dialing is a sponsored missionary serving as a teacher at the School of Promise in Chiang Mai, Thailand.