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Effective Date for New Manual Declared
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A New Theater in Town! Come See God in Action!
Bank Error in Your Favor - Collect $815
Pioneer Australian Nazarene, Mrs. Marion Scoular Berg, Remembered.
God's Math - Youth Camp 2014!
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A New Theater in Town! Come See God in Action!
Kudjip,Papua New Guinea
The Nazarene Hospital in Kudjip, Papua New Guinea is getting a new Operating Room, or Theatre as it is known there. A Theatre where you can see God’s handiwork in the human body and see God working through the hands of the Doctors and staff as they prayerfully operate.
Significant progress has been made in just a few short weeks with the team of workers that has been overseen by Adam Peterson and Jordan Thompson. Please continue to keep them in prayer as they build this new facility and for the doctors and staff that will use the new theatre as they work to meet the medical and spiritual needs of the people.
The Nazarene hospital in Kudjip has served the people of Papua New Guinea for more than 40 years. Caring for more than 50,000 patients annually, which includes performing more than 800 major surgeries, and delivering 1200 babies. Every year several hundred people receive Christ as their Savior in the hospital and new churches are planted flowing directly from hospital conversions.
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Bank Error in Your Favor - Collect $815
Brisbane, Australia
In November 2013 the Capalaba Community Church of the Nazarene in Brisbane, Australia was moved by the news and images of the devastating impact of Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda in the Philippines.
An intentionally inclusive intergenerational multicultural congregation that is committed to compassionate ministry and global evangelism, the Capalaba church, led by NMI president Sherrynne Cutts, decided to give its entire Christmas Day offering to Nazarene Compassionate Ministries (NCM) to help rebuild lives and homes in the Philippines. Encouraged by the news that NCM had found an anonymous donor to match any funds raised and sent by 31 December 2013, the small but growing congregation of senior citizens, students, and recent immigrants, gave sacrificially A$815 (US$750) to help those whose lives had been shattered.
However, due to technical problems, and despite repeated attempts, Lead Pastor Steve Walsh was unable to transfer the funds to NCM before the deadline. When Pastor Walsh explained the situation to Marina Fugazza, a Customer Experience Specialist of the church’s local bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia decided to give the church an extra A$815 to add to its donation to NCM. And despite missing the deadline, NCM was able to match the entire amount raised.
We praise God for how He multiplied the gift from our sister Church in Australia and made possible the matching funds by NCM.
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Pioneer Australian Nazarene, Mrs. Marion (Scoular)
Berg, Remembered
Brisbane, Australia
Pioneer Australian Nazarene Mrs. Marion (Scoular) Berg, a former District NMI President and the widow of the late Dr. AAE Berg, who is considered to be the founder of the Church of the Nazarene in Australia, passed on to her glorious reward on Thursday, January 23, 2014 in Brisbane, Australia.
Born the 25th of April 1923, in Scotland, Berg served beside her husband who was the District Superintendent of the Australia District of the Church of the Nazarene from 1948-1977, and the Australia Northern Pacific District from 1977-1979.
Berg is considered to have been the longest serving Australian Nazarene, having been a Nazarene for more than 65 years. She has many relatives that are serving the Lord in various churches and districts throughout Australia.
Marion is the mother of Peter Berg, co-pastor of the Mt. Gravatt East Church of the Nazarene in Brisbane, and Marion Isobel Berg; aunt of Loy Hearn of NewStart River City church plant, Oriel Hill of Meadowlands church, and of the the late John Kerr. She was the great aunt of Charlton, Christine, and Jillian Kerr; Kammy Crowther, Roland Hearn, and Brad Hearn; Karen, Byron, and Garon Hill; and Anthony and Steve Higgs.
Her son Peter writes: “We thank the Lord that it was a peaceful transition and the she is now with Him.”
Submissions: Steve Walsh and NCN News.
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God's Math - Youth Camp 2014!
Parua Bay, New Zealand
Parua Bay, New Zealand: Bloodshot eyes + Sore feet + Tired body = Energized in spirit!
How does this formula work? It is a mathematical equation made in heaven.
God’s math says that 5 loaves +2 fishes = food for over 5,000. God’s order of priority says that the first will be last and the last will be first. Somehow in God’s economy, subtraction becomes multiplication, and weaknesses is changed to strength.
This is what many of us experienced this week at “Follow Me” youth camp 2014. It was very evident that the Lord’s favour was upon our 115 youth and leaders this week at Parua Bay! We enjoyed hours of fun in the sun, silly games, delicious food (and then some more!), powerful preaching and incredible live music! Jumping off wharfs, kayaking, and sliming up on a giant water slide make for a good camp in any culture. And you can’t forget staying up all night and bashing your best friends with giant noodles!
But what makes for a GREAT youth camp? It can only be the moving of God’s Holy Spirit in the hearts of young people. In only the way that He can, God communicated His love and grace to our campers, urging them to follow Him into eternal life, real life. . .. and many responded!
Even before my preaching began last night and without any invitation from the front, some kids were weeping, convicted of sin and keenly aware of their need for a Saviour. It has been a long time since many of us as leaders had witnessed such a powerful moving of God’s Spirit like this among our young people on the New Zealand district. We gave them an opportunity to respond and dozens unashamedly came forward to soak up the love of the Saviour and accept Jesus as their Lord! Even as I write this blog post, I smile with tears while I recall the precious conversations and prayers I was privileged to share with some of them. All I can say is, “Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. “
Could you please join me in praying for true disciples to be made out of these young ones who have taken the first step in following Jesus? For both youth leaders and teens it will require a genuine commitment to the process of this sacred journey towards holiness. It will require a comittment to following Jesus.
Tired bodies? Little sleep? Sore Feet? YEP! And it’s all worth it!
Contribution: Alison Weinstock
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