The following report was written by Estefania Amador, Valeria Narvaez, Elsie Rodriguez and Rubi Piñon, who are serving in Haiti for two months through Youth in Mission. It has already been a busy summer! We have participated in three pastors’ kids’ camps, with the first one being held in Puerto Principe (Central District): 22 children... Continue Reading →
A Multicultural Missionary Summer
On July 7-23, 2017 the communities of Cecara and Banegas in Santiago, Dominican Republic were blessed with the Maximum Mission and “4x4: All-Terrain” Global Mission projects hosted by Genesis missionaries Wendy Rivera, Sugey Barron and Joselyn Garcia. The missionaries were also assisted by brothers and sisters in Christ from the USA, Puerto Rico, Mexico and... Continue Reading →
The Army And The King
By Rev. Carla Sunberg Several years ago I heard a sermon by the President of Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, USA — Carla Sunberg. Rev. Sunberg opened the work of the Church of the Nazarene in Russia and served for 13 years before becoming a pastor and District Superintendent in the United States. ... Continue Reading →
Upper-level Vision
By Scott Armstrong What is your passion? What gets you out of bed even on the bad days? When I was a teen, I probably would have thought of such questions as irrelevant or even dumb. I was driven to get good grades, but I was probably just as passionate about eating ice cream or... Continue Reading →
Why Jesus Never Commanded us to Plant Churches – Part 2 of 2
This is part two of the article published in the previous post. Do our actions match our words? We say we want to see churches planted from out of the harvest, but our actions and our leadership practices do not often match our words. And the sad thing is that even when faced with such inconsistencies,... Continue Reading →
Why Jesus Never Commanded us to Plant Churches – Part 1 of 2
By J. D. Payne I recently spoke with a church-planting leader for a particular denomination. As we talked over coffee, he inquired about the direction of our church when it comes to church planting. My response was to describe our future missionary labors in terms like we read about in Acts 13-14; 16; 20; 1... Continue Reading →
Smoke Went Up
By Rev. Rob Prince Smoke went up when I said “Yes” to God’s call into full time ministry. It wasn’t a “white-smoke-out-of-the-chimney-like-when-they-elect-a-pope” kind of smoke; it was more like a “too-much-wet-wood-on-the-fire” kind of smoke. I was sitting beside a campfire on the Church of the Nazarene’s Eastern Michigan District Campgrounds at a teenage “afterglow” following... Continue Reading →