NDI Journey Posts

NDI USA/Canada Leadership Conference (LC2024) November 5-7, 2024

Nazarene Discipleship International will hold LC2024 at the Hyatt Regency hotel downtown in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This strategic location in the central United States provides ease of travel from anywhere in the USA/Canada Region. The LC2024 conference begins on Tuesday evening, November 5, and continues through Thursday morning, November 7, 2024.

Kids Reaching Kids Enables Vacation Bible School in Armenia

Vacation Bible School (VBS) is a key ministry in Armenia. It is an evangelistic tool to attract and invite new children. It is also a perfect way for disciplining them. Last year’s VBS theme was “Follow Jesus here, there, and everywhere.” Armenian children enjoy the VBS to the maximum, and it is one of the most expected activities of the year.

Are You Ready for Your 2024 VBS?

River Rafting Adventure

This year’s VBS is titled River Rafting Adventure! Are you ready to lead your children on an exciting adventure? River Rafting Adventure is available for free download in both English and Spanish.

What are your upcoming plans for discipleship in your small groups?

If you are still looking for resources for your upcoming small group discipleship, check out Dan Boone’s A Journey of Grace small group series.

Remembering Nazarenes Who Are Suffering Because of Wars

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting a full-scale war that Europe has not seen since 1946. For the past two years, the Ukrainian people have been living in a different reality, fighting to protect their country and the hundreds of thousands of residents losing their homes. Let’s continue to pray for Ukraine and Russia, that peace will be restored. I am also a Ukrainian who escaped the war. I have a family there, and the reality is worse than we can imagine.

Teach Children to Make Good Choices

For teachers and parents, it is easier to tell children what to do than to guide them in making a choice. However, this approach creates teens and young adults who fail to make good choices, because they have always depended on others to make decisions for them.

Providing Intentional Mentoring and Equipping

One of Jesus’ methods of discipleship was through the personal Intentional Mentoring and Equipping of a chosen group of individuals. Jesus’ approaches helped Christianity grow and transform society. Our core principles in the new Nazarene Discipleship International (NDI) Bylaws call our attention to mentoring as a loving way to introduce non-believers to the full knowledge of Christ and to teach accountability to growing Christians. For this, we need deliberate, planned, intended, and calculated mentoring and equipping.

Special NDI Resources Now Available Online!

A New Handbook for the New NDI: This edition of the NDI handbook is the result of the Church of the Nazarene’s refocused vision for making disciples along A Journey of Grace. To download a personal copy, click here!

Now is a Great time to Recognize those who have gone the Second Mile in Ministry!

Have you encountered disciple makers who have gone beyond the norm of what is expected? Jesus encourages his followers to offer themselves beyond what is required, to do more than is expected, because “It is the Lord Christ you are serving” (Colossians 3:24, NIV).

2024 KRK Missions Offering

Join us in giving to this year’s global KRK offering, Spiritual Olympians! Through your giving, Kids Reaching Kids (KRK) will provide needed resources to other children around the globe so that they can receive the gospel and become spiritual olympians.