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Youth in Mission - Mexico 2019 Lohuther René Gutiérrez Méndez At last the day we had prayed for arrived, and with much excitement we waited in the Mexico City airport for the Youth in Mission (YIM) volunteer missionaries. Mario Josué López Alvarado and Pablo Isaí Parra Jiménez, both from different parts of Mexico, arrived first,... Continue Reading →
The following article was originally published at Nazarene.org. The Church of the Nazarene has established its presence in a new country on the Eurasia Region through a local church planter and evangelist named Sam*. It is not easy for missionaries to enter this country since the government prohibits Christian evangelistic activities. So, when Sam expressed a desire... Continue Reading →
By Scott Armstrong “So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord.” There it is, in black and white in verse 8 of the first chapter of 2 Timothy. No getting away from it; testifying about what Jesus is doing in our lives is the expectation. It’s what Christian’s do. So, why is doing it... Continue Reading →
From June 28 to 30, 2019, representatives from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, the United States and Honduras worked in the La Ceiba community in Honduras, 98 participants gathering together to serve others through the Maximum Mission program. The weekend included visitation to a nursing home and an orphanage, creative evangelism, children’s vacation bible school,... Continue Reading →
Recently, we have been receiving reports from our missionaries who have been planting churches through the Genesis initiative. They have been serving for more than a year in each of their assigned places and they are starting to see a great harvest. Here, we want to share one of the team’s testimonies in Queretaro, Mexico,... Continue Reading →
By Freya Galindo Guevara “ . . . I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.” 1 Corinthians 9:22 When the message of salvation has changed our lives, we become passionate about sharing it. That implies that we must find better ways to share it,... Continue Reading →
By Ed Stetzer How does the word "contextualization" make you feel? Free or fearful? The $64-million dollar question about innovation and change is this: How far is too far? I can't think of any question in the church much more controversial than this one. We've been asking it for two thousand years and rarely ever... Continue Reading →
By Scott Armstrong I use apps on my smartphone several hours a day. You probably do, too. Twitter? Fantasy Football? Tracking your steps every day? Yes, there are mobile phone apps for all of those. But you already knew that. Did you know there’s an app for virtually shaving yourself? What about milking a cow?... Continue Reading →
By David Busic A few months ago, I spent the afternoon with Junior and Jaci Rodrigues. They are Nazarene church planters who have helped to birth five congregations. Although they are both from Brazil, they have planted and are pastoring a church in Argentina. The city where their church is located is hard soil. It... Continue Reading →
By Joey Shaw It’s been a year or two, or perhaps more, and you are still unable to converse in your host people’s language at the level you had hoped. You get stuck, locals have to slow down, you are constantly embarrassed, you can’t “be yourself,” and you just … don’t … want … to... Continue Reading →
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