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Three young people embarked on a 23-day missions trip as part of the Missionary Advance project on the Mexico Southern District. Victoria Trujillo, Lizbeth Morales, and Abner Gutiérrez began their trip on 23 November and ended on 15 December. They visited multiple towns in the Lagos Zone, joining

Asia-Pacific Regional Director Mark Louw announced that Lawrence T. “Larry” Bollinger has been elected as the eighth president of Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary. He has been serving as the institutional advancement vice president at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA,

Leaders of the church-type mission* in Boca Chica, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, organized the first service of 2020 as a way to attract new community members and share the gospel with them. They held the service on 5 January outside of the church building. Nearly 150 people, including children

Workshops were held in Riobamba and Quito, Ecuador, to help leaders understand how to tell Bible stories not just from their heads but from their hearts as well. The presenters were Stéphane Tibi, education coordinator for the Eurasia Region, and Angel Sigui, a Master Story Teller for the Tell THE

Guam First Church of the Nazarene celebrated its 50th anniversary in December. Over 150 people attended the event, including members of other churches that use the building. Guam First Church of the Nazarene is the only Nazarene church on the island. The Church of the Nazarene in Guam began with a

European Nazarene College (EuNC) recently announced its 10-year vision, including providing theological education to Nazarenes living in highly secularized, postmodern cultures that view themselves as “post-Christian . ” While some view theological education as reserved for clergy, theological

Jack Brannen Smithwick, 87, of Nashville, Georgia, passed away 8 December 2019. He was the pastor of Nashville Church of the Nazarene. Jack was born on 24 August 1932 in Moultrie, Georgia. After serving in the U.S. Army, Smithwick began pastoring Nazarene churches throughout Georgia. He pastored

Nazarene seminaries and colleges across the South America Region held their graduation ceremonies in November and December. This culminates the region’s academic calendar. Chile Nazarene Bible Seminary held its ceremony 9 November to celebrate the graduation of three students with bachelor’s degrees

The Church of the Nazarene in Puerto Rico celebrated its 75th anniversary in late October. More than 500 people attended the celebration event held in the town of Arecibo. During the celebration service, they showed four videos that explained the history of the church in Puerto Rico, how it got

Five hundred Nazarenes from many countries entered an “Invisible World” at the Eurasia Regional Conference, held 14-19 November 2019 in Kyrenia, Cyprus. The “Invisible World” conference theme allowed the gathering to explore ways the church in Eurasia experiences invisibility. “The theme verse for