In the state of Nebraska, there are over 300,000 Spanish-speaking residents, but only two Nazarene churches offer a Spanish-language service. Francisco Torres, who pastors the Beatrice First Church of the Nazarene, hopes to remedy that situation.
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. To view the report for December, click read more.
Kevin Donley, 64, of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, passed away 20 December 2022. He was the superintendent of the Wisconsin District, leading the district since 2013.
Joplin First Church of the Nazarene opened the city’s first permanent homeless shelter on 4 January 2022. The ministry arose out of a burden Pastor Shana McGarrah believes God placed on her, and the church’s hearts during the winter months in Missouri.
Betty Jean (Cherry) Owens, 88, of Edmond, Oklahoma, passed away on 29 November 2022. She was a missionary who served in the Philippines from 1964 to 1982.
Nazarene Research Services played an instrumental role in the 2020 U.S. Religion Census, a study conducted every 10 years by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies.
Central Church of the Nazarene in Lenexa, Kansas, held its third annual Christmas Light Drive Thru, where over 2,000 people from the community came to experience the story of Jesus’ birth told through lights and dramatization.
Wayne H. Brown, 76, of Sebring, Florida, passed away 1 December 2022. He was a retired district superintendent, leading the Northern Michigan District from 2002 to 2015.
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. To view the report for November, click read more.
More than four times a week, Don Pardew makes his way out into the various homeless encampments in Kansas City, Missouri. He brings food, blankets,
