• A boat motors between flooded homes on Saturday after heavy rains in the region in Hammond, Louisiana. (AP photo) A deluge of unusually heavy rains late last week caused unprecedented flooding in southern Louisiana and parts of Mississippi. At least 13 people died in the record-level floods, which
  • The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received August 15-19, 2016. Joseph Biscoe Jr. , 89, of Kansas City, Kansas, passed away August 15. He was a retired minister, serving in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Deleware,
  • MNU President David Spittal (left) accepts a gift from Kansas City First Church of the Nazarene Pastor Brad Estep for a film project. Brad Estep, lead pastor of Kansas City First Church of the Nazarene, presented MidAmerica Nazarene University President David Spittal with a gift of $16,500 to
  • Zimbabwe West District Superintendent A. Nyoni In 2002, Noah Sibanda graduated from Africa Nazarene University in Nairobi, Kenya, with a master's degree in religion. In August of that same year, Sibanda returned to his home country of Zimbabwe, where Zimbabwe West District Superintendent A. Nyoni
  • Prayer is requested for Michigan District Superintendent John Seaman, who was hospitalized this week in Tennessee while visiting family. A member of the Church of the Nazarene’s General Board and a former missionary, Seaman continues to undergo tests to determine appropriate treatment. The following
  • Liberia was ravaged by the Ebola crisis as well as civil wars over the last decades, reducing the male population. Many women must now provide for their families. In partnership with Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, the Nazarene Women's Project has been in operation since 2001. Edith N'Boyou, a
  • Dr Samuel Hynd (left) with business mogul Natie Kirsh in an undated picture. ( Swazi Observer photo) Dr Samuel Hynd, a longtime Scottish missionary to Swaziland, passed away August 18 at the age of 91. Hynd was born on 19 December 1924 in the home of his grandfather, George Sharpe, the founder of
  • Charles "Chuck" Fowler passed away peacefully August 14 surrounded by family and friends after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56. Fowler was born September 22, 1959, in McLeansboro, Illinois, to Clark and Betty (Park) Fowler. He grew up in Griffith, Indiana, and attended Griffith
  • Retired Church of the Nazarene missionary Lawrence “Larry” Faul passed away August 11. He was 91. Faul was born in Germantown Township, North Dakota, August 9, 1925. He married Betty Foraker August 16, 1945, and the couple served as missionaries for the Church of the Nazarene for 38 years. They
  • From Bronx, New York, to New Orleans, Louisiana, and Miami, Florida, to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Nazarenes from far and near attended the 2016 National Black Nazarene Conference. The event, themed Renew – Revive – Refresh, took place July 27 to 31 in Orlando, Florida. More than 700 people attended,