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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
