Are you still deciding if you should have a Vacation Bible School this year? My congregation has found it to be one of the most effective tools the local church has in the areas of evangelism, outreach, extended ministries, training, and nurturing.

Seven weeks after Easter, on May 28 this year, most Nazarenes in our 164 world areas will celebrate Pentecost Sunday. We will remember Christ’s promise to be with us “always, to the very end of the age” (Matthew 28:20). We will also remember the early believers who gathered in an upper room being filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:4).

Hal Perkins’ in Walk with Me insists: “To make Christlike disciples, we must help our disciples make disciple makers.” Fostering and developing disciple makers should be ongoing for healthy, growing Christ-followers. Every Christian should be able to answer these questions: Who is discipling you?

Recently the Church of the Nazarene refocused its vision for making disciples with the launch of Nazarene Discipleship as a Journey of Grace. Discipleship has always been an important part of the Church of the Nazarene. However, over the years, the discipleship efforts of the Church of the Nazarene have varied. In our earliest years, discipleship was included in a General Assembly Committee on Sunday Schools.