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World Mission Communication News Desk Featured Photo Block
Nazarene World...Week of Prayer...March 2-8, 2014
Freedom Sunday March 9th, 2014
Immediate Prayer Request
Upcoming Events
Subscription Center Free Writing Workshop Webinar - Powerful Story Telling!
When Husbands go on trips, some women go shopping...Toni Porter had a different idea!
Packing Up...Headed to the Philippines!
2014 World Evangelism Fund Easter Offering - Together We Can!
MK Photo Featured in High Flying Magazine
Board of General Superintendents Call To Prayer for Global Theology Conference III
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Southern Nazarene University Student and MK Jonathan Hane snapped this great photo, which was featured in a regional magazine! Great shot Jonathan!
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Nazarene Week of Prayer Announced - With Specific Regional Prayer Requests!
The Nazarene World Week of Prayer is an annual event occurring during the week that includes the World Day of Prayer (the first Friday in March). During this week Nazarenes dedicate themselves to interceding for our church and our world. Special requests are provided for a regional prayer plan.Coordinating with the interdenominational World Day of Prayer (Friday, March 7), the Nazarene World Week of Prayer was begun with hopes that this event would re-ignite prayer flames, deepen commitment to prayer and fasting, and precipitate revival in our churches and lives.
"Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know."--Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV)
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On March 9, 2014, Join us for FREEDOM SUNDAY To focus on the church's role in addressing modern slavery, also known as human trafficking.
On the first Sunday of Lent, we will focus on the fast God spoke of in Isaiah 58:6 "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?"
This is a movement of hope. Formed by prayer, informed by God's Word, and motivated by Christlike compassion, we will acknowledge the cries of the oppressed, challenge oppressive systems, and find ways to serve in humility.
Immediate Request
03/07/2014 Fiji: Nazarene Pastor and Granddaughter perish in tragic accident. Please follow this link for the details.03/05/2014 Saipan:
Pray for Dave Bucher as he recovers from prostate cancer surgery in Kansas City. Dave and Helen Ann are church planting missionaries and church planters on the Pacific island of Saipan.
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March 10, 17, 24,April 7, 14, 2014
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March 9, 2014
Freedom Sunday
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March 23-27, 2014
Global Theology Conference III
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April 20, 2014
Easter Offering
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Free Writing Workshop Webinar - Powerful Story Telling!
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Click here to view full story on the website The Asia-Pacific and Eurasia Regions are pleased to announce that the first joint communications training webinar, "Powerful Story Telling" featuring Engage Magazine's Editor - Gina Pottenger is well underway with the first of 6 sessions successfully held on Monday, March 3rd, 2014. While there are over 70 registered participants, we still have available slots.
Upcoming sessions will cover:
What parts make a story
How to identify a story
How to write in news and narrative style
How to conduct an interview
Style tips and tricks
Ethics of storytelling
The Webinar sessions will be one hour long and will be held on the following Mondays:
March 10th, 17th, 24th, and
April 7th and 14th 9:00am (GMT)
10:00am (CET) 5:00pm (PHT)
The Webinar sessions are being recorded in the event that you are not able to make the live sessions. Follow this link for Registration
When Husbands go on trips, some women go shopping...Toni Porter had a different idea!
APNTS, Manila, Philippines: Traffic is something I truly could do without, whether that be on the street or in the mall. So when I leave on trips, Connie will many times take advantage of the time to do some much needed shopping. When General Superintendent Dr. Jerry Porter recently left home for a scheduled visit to South America, his wife Toni took the opportunity to not go shopping, but to visit her students…half way around the world!Toni, who has a Masters of Theology from St. Mary’s Seminary Ecumenical Institution, was approached a few years ago by the dean of students at Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary and offered the opportunity to teach a class on “Spiritual Formation.” While sometimes she teaches the course online, when she has the opportunity, she prefers to travel and interact with the students in person.
Here at APNTS you won’t find Toni just in the classroom, but also engaging with students in the cafeteria, going out to dinner, and becoming part of the seminary life!
We will be featuring her story in an upcoming World Mission Communications News Video. — Todd Aebischer – Regional Communications Coordinator
Packing Up...Headed to the Philippines!
Miller, George and Nancy
Biography
George and Nancy Miller are servants of the Lord and have served as missionaries for the Church of the Nazarene since 1989. Nancy and George both felt called to missionary service as children and this call was reaffirmed during their two month service as volunteers in the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Nazarene Hospital in Manzini, Swaziland, in 1987. The Millers were appointed in 1989 and served for one 5-year term as specialized assignment missionaries, and then were granted global missionary status in 1994.George received his B.S. in Medical Technology from Southern Nazarene University in 1972. Following graduation the Millers moved to Carnegie, Oklahoma where George worked in the Carnegie Hospital laboratory and x-ray until their missionary appointment to the Nazarene Hospital at Kudjip in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Also the Miller’s were active raising their four children and involved in their church where they served in many capacities including children’s ministers, Sunday School Teachers, Youth leaders, Caravan leaders, Bible Quiz Director in their local church. On the district they were involved in the Boys and Girls camps, and Caravan program.
During their ten years of service in Papua New Guinea, their primary responsibility was to the hospital where George served as supervisor of the laboratory and x-ray departments. They also ministered in churches and assisted as missionary advisors to the districts and in other capacities as there was opportunity.
During their second home assignment, George completed his education requirement for ordination and in 1999 was reassigned as District Superintendent to the Solomon Islands District. They have served in that capacity since August 1999. Nancy completed her BA in Ministry in Christian Schools Education in 2007. She completed this on-line from the program offered by Nazarene Bible College. She served the past four years as principal of Zion Christian Academy, a Nazarene K-12 school operated by the Honiara, Zion Church of the Nazarene.
The Millers have four children: Gloria & husband Scott Nelson, Greg & wife Wendy, Geoffrey & wife Churie, and Gary. They also have eleven grandchildren, ranging from 17 yrs. to 7 months.
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2014 World Evangelism Fund Easter Offering - Together We Can!
Global
TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Soon Christians around the world will celebrate the glorious fact that our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, suffered, died, and rose triumphantly so we might “have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10b). Hundreds of thousands of those who will join in this incredible celebration are Nazarenes, and these Nazarene worshipers will gather to praise our risen Lord in at least 159 world areas.How is it possible that the Church of the Nazarene has had such enormous outreach among the lost around the world? The answer is simple—our people are known for sacrificial giving to missions. From our earliest days, in obedience to God, Nazarenes have been committed to make Christlike disciples in the nations.
We share His life with others out of gratitude for what He has done for us!
Yet, there are still countless people who are unaware of His grace for their lives. In fact, the Great Commission is a huge unfinished task that no one person, no individual church, not even one denomination can complete alone. But TOGETHER we can and are changing lives through Christ by our faithful giving.
Our annual Easter Offering, held on April 20, 2014, gives us the opportunity and privilege of impacting lives in the same incredible ways He has historically used you and others in the church.
We invite you to join us now in praying that the Church of the Nazarene will indeed share NEW LIFE with men, women, and children everywhere who are in need of His grace. May God use you to make a difference for His kingdom.
RESOURCES FOR YOUR CHURCH
David Graves, Chair
Board of General Superintendents
Verne Ward, Director
Global Mission
Daniel Ketchum, Director
Nazarene Missions International
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MK Photo Featured in High Flying Magazine!
Asia Pacific Region
Jonathan Hane is no foreigner to "High Flying" adventure! On one of his recent travels he snapped the picture (to the right) and submitted it in a photo contest with Cebu Pacific Airlines, one of our international carriers here in the Region. We were all very excited when we saw that his picture had been chosen and featured in the most recent edition of Cebu Pacific's In-flight Magazine.
Snapping awesome photos is not Jonathan's only passion. This January he demonstrated his commitment to making a tangible difference in the lives of others when he chose to extend his winter break from Southern Nazarene University and travel to the Philippines with his family to some of the areas hit hardest by Super Typhoon Yolanda....
Dulag, Leyte, Central Philippines: What happens when a group of people with a passion for ministry is connected with an opportunity to serve? Incredible results!
This was the case January 8th – 12th, when a Work and Witness Team with servant hearts came to this area so greatly devastated. This mixed nationality team arrived on site at the church in Dulag (Leyte) and began a building project that didn’t just involve wood, nails, metal and tarps, but even more so, lives and hearts.
Dulag Nazarene Church just days after Typhoon Yolanda
The Dulag Church of the Nazarene is the home church of Rev. Edgar Longcop, District Superintendent of the Eastern Visayas District. The church and residence in Dulag were completely destroyed (one wall left standing in the church) by the more than 195 mph (313 km/h) winds that struck the islands on the morning of November 8th as Super Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) made landfall.
It was only in the days and weeks following the storm that the true scope of devastation began to become known. The some 200 mile wide path of Yolanda’s winds and storm surge wreaked havoc on the region, leveling complete towns, destroying agricultural lands, devastating the fishing industry, and leaving more than 8,000 dead or missing. This area of the Central Visayas Region of the Philippines is home to more than 350 Nazarene congregations. Many of our churches were either completely destroyed or severely damaged, and the homes of many of our church members were leveled.
Work Team erects temporary church structure at Dulag.
Within just a few hours of the storm’s passing, our Nazarene Disaster Response Teams were on the ground conducting rapid assessments, coordinating critical life saving aid, and facilitating what would be an ongoing response for several months yet to come.
Teams like this recent one to Dulag are now being coordinated for the coming months. The Philippine Field Office’s strategy is to attempt to connect each local church that was destroyed with at least one Work Team.
Work teams are also having the opportunity to engage with the children in the community through the Child Safety Places. In any disaster, children are some of the most vulnerable. Nazarene Disaster Response and Nazarene Compassionate Ministries are working with local officials to establish locations where children can undergo psychosocial counseling, debriefing and have an opportunity to “just be kids.” Hygiene kits, School Pal-Paks, and nourishing food packs are being provided to the children and families. In addition, area teachers are being debriefed, counseled, and then trained so that they can return to their schools and continue the emotional healing of their students.
More important than the physical building of the church, is the relationship building with the Philippine church families who are seeing first-hand, what it means to belong to a global church family like the Church of the Nazarene.
Hand-in-Hand, arm-in-arm, together, with our Filipino brothers and sisters, the Church of the Nazarene is impacting the lives of thousands not just within our church family, but within the community. We are being the tangible hands and feet of Christ.
And guess what…as a result...the family is GROWING!
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Board of General Superintendents Call To Prayer for Global Theology Conference III
Johannesburg, South Africa
Higher education leaders throughout the denomination met at 2013 General Assembly
Nazarenes from around the world will gather next month in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the denomination’s third global theology conference. The Board of General Superintendents (BGS) is calling on Nazarenes to join in a month of prayer for this historic and impactful event.
The prayer emphasis will begin on February 23 and continue throughout the conference, which takes place March 23–27, 2014.
Sponsored by the BGS and the International Board of Education, Global Theology Conference III offers opportunity for 300 invited leaders, representing the six world regions of the Church of the Nazarene, to be involved. Participants include clergy and laity who serve in various leadership roles throughout the international church. Conference papers and conversation will address the topic, “Critical Issues in Ecclesiology,” as we celebrate a shared vision of our understanding of the church and its faithful expression of the gospel message in today’s world.
The Board of General Superintendents asks Nazarenes to join them in prayer as leaders and theologians engage in this important time of dialogue and reflection regarding the nature and mission of the church. The prayers of Nazarenes worldwide will provide valuable support for this important event.
Previous global theology conferences took place in Guatemala (2002) and the Netherlands (2007).
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One of the Asia-Pacific Regional Priorities is the establishment of Cohesive Education. The populations of the Asia-Pacific Region are leading the world in the growth of mobile application use.
The World Mission Communications Asia-Pacific Team has responded to this unique matching of technology and regional priorities by the development of the Articles of Faith StudyMap Mobile Application.
This is an interactive mobile application to help the user in developing a comprehensive understanding of what it means to be "Nazarene."
Encourage your technology power users to download the application and then integrate it into your membership and discipleship classes.
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