Friday, June 26, 2015

ATR News...SNU Team Lives in Mountain Village, New President Installed, Canada West Partners with Asia-Pacific Region, Prayer Praises, Requests, and More! - Asia-Pacific Regional Communications from The Global Church of the Nazarene for Friday, 26 June 2015 - Volume 3 / Issue Number 26

ATR News...SNU Team Lives in Mountain Village, New President Installed, Canada West Partners with Asia-Pacific Region, Prayer Praises, Requests, and More! - Asia-Pacific Regional Communications from The Global Church of the Nazarene for Friday, 26 June 2015 - Volume 3 / Issue Number 26


Saturday, June 27, 2015

In This Issue
Nazarene News from Around the Globe.
NMI Highlight...June Focus - World Mission Broadcast.
20 Ways to say Thank You to Your Team!
Regional Praise Reports and Prayer Requests!
New President of PNC Installed!
Canada West District Adopts Solar Audio Bible Project to Impact AP Region!
NNU Welcomes Students from KNU and China!
NMI Metropolitan Luzon District Prayer and Fasting
SNU in Missions Team Lives Life in Mountain Village in Thailand!
Free Personalized Greetings to Your Church, Faith Promise Gathering, or NMI Convention.
I Have Chosen You - Engage Magazine.
APNTS Highlights!
Nazarene Theological College Intensives Promotion.

Nazarene News from Around the Globe
Helping a community care for others
Prayers for Charleston
Prayers for Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina

AP photo
A gunman entered the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Wednesday evening and opened fire in a prayer meeting.
Nine people, ages 26-87, were killed in a racially motivated act. A suspect was detained the next day in Shelby, North Carolina.
The Church of the Nazarene joins with the churches and individuals around the world in prayerful support of the Emanuel AME Church.
South Carolina Church of the Nazarene District Superintendent Eddie Estep released the following letter early Thursday:
Dear South Carolina District Ministry Team:
Our thoughts and prayers are with our brothers and sisters of Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.
The terrible tragedy and tragic loss of life that struck their congregation last night during their prayer meeting shocks and saddens all of us. We once again see the stark reality of life in an evil and sinful world and of our desperate need of the Savior, the Prince of Peace.
Our Low Country pastors, some of whom have friends who are part of the Emanuel AME Church, have requested that we pause to pray at 5:00 p.m. today. Let us join together in prayer for the church, and for the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives. May they sense the strong, healing arms of our Heavenly Father and feel the love of brothers and sisters in Christ who care for them.
Warmly Yours in Christ,
Eddie Estep
District Superintendent
South Carolina Church of the Nazarene

Members of the Moncks Corner Church of the Nazarene and others join in prayer for the Emanuel AME Church Thursday. (Facebook photo)
Please join the South Carolina District family in prayer for the Emanuel AME Church congregation, families, and community. Burundi Nazarenes, Missionaries, flee country
Paty Alvarez remembered
Paty Alvarez remembered
Ecuador, South America Region

Ruth Patricia Alvarez Moreno, 42, passed away June 12. She was a beloved secretary who served more than 10 years on the North Andean Field and the Ecuador Mission.
After fighting against an aggressive cancer for more than two months, her body couldn’t resist any longer. According to the words of her son Israel and her two brothers, Amparo and Freddy Alvarez, her departure to heaven was “very sweet.” She simply closed her eyes as someone going to sleep and went to be with the Lord.
Paty was known for her great spirit of humility and simplicity. She was always attentive to everyone and with her characteristic smile, she worked and served every day like clockwork; that is to say, with punctuality, responsibility, excellence, and joy.
There were more than 300 in attendance at the funeral, which showed that Paty touched the lives of many people. In addition to her work in the North Andean Field Office, she created two ministries for children and teens in two Nazarene churches on the Ecuador Sierra Norte District. Paty worked untiringly with these children. Many of them came to the funeral to honor her. Thanks be to God for her life’s testimony.[Church of the Nazarene South America RegionPanama hosts first CCO]
Message of Hope from One Refugee to Another
Near-record 4 Nazarene players chosen in MLB draft
Swaziland church's building project inspires field leader
GuideStone offers health insurance options for Nazarene churches
Nepal relief efforts move to recovery
Stewardship ministries announce sermon scholarship winners
UK church comes alongside Latvian immigrant community
UK church comes alongside Latvian immigrant community
Barnsley, United Kingdom

Latvia was among the countries particularly hard hit by the global economic crisis that began in 2008, suffering from a high of more than 20 percent unemployment by 2010. Although that figure has fallen to about 9 percent last year, waves of emigration cost the country more than 600,000 of its citizens in the last 15 years, as many of the young and educated move west for the promise of greater prosperity.
That’s why many Latvians have moved to the United Kingdom, with a significant number making a home in Barnsley, just west of Manchester.
Zane Pavlovica and her family moved to Barnsley in 2012 and the first thing they did was to look for a church. They found their church home at the Church of the Nazarene in Barnsley.
The church reached out to them and made them feel welcome. As the family made contacts in the Latvian community, they began to dream of holding Christian meetings with others from their culture and in their own Latvian language.
For the rest of the story, see Engage magazine.
Los Angeles District elects new superintendent
Los Angeles, California

General Superintendent David A. Busic announced the election of Gregory Garman as superintendent of the Los Angeles District.
Elected on the first ballot, Garman will take over for retiring Los Angeles District Superintendent Jerry Ferguson July 19.
Garman is currently senior pastor of the Newhall, California, Church of the Nazarene, where he has served for 22 years. After graduating from Point Loma Nazarene College (now University), he served at the El Morro Church of the Nazarene in Los Osos, California, before leading the Carpinteria, California, Church of the Nazarene. Garman also served as Nazarene Missions International president for the Los Angeles District from 2002 to 2007.
The son of missionaries Larry and Addie Garman, Greg grew up in the jungles of Peru.
"I have had the privilege of watching two of the finest missionaries in the Church of the Nazarene minister throughout the years," Greg said. "Mom and Dad served the Lord for nearly 50 years in the Amazon jungle of Peru. They set the greatest godly example of what it meant to follow and serve the Lord faithfully each day."
Greg says missions are extremely important to him, and he stays in touch with his Amazonian roots by returning to Peru every year.
"When I was elected to serve as district superintendent of the Los Angeles District, I was overtaken with emotion to think of how the Lord brought a 'jungle boy' to the 'jungle city' of Los Angeles," he said. "You see, my love for both the people in the Amazon and the people of L.A. are equal. From the jungle vines to the Internet cables of the city, from the forest of trees to concrete structures, from streams and rivers to roads and freeways, one thing is unchanged — the people! We all eat, sleep, work, and need Jesus. We may dress differently, but not really. The languages may not be all the same. But the name 'Jesus' is nearly the same in every language of the world. So, I'm thankful for God's calling in my life. He called me years ago to trust Him and to not lean on my own understanding, but to acknowledge Him in every detail and He would direct my path. That's what I'm trying to do!"
Greg and his wife, Leslie, reside in Valencia, California.
USA/Canada regional director calls for prayer, racial reconciliation
Charleston, South Carolina

Members of the Moncks Corner Church of the Nazarene and others gather in prayer for the Charleston community.
Last week a gunman entered the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and opened fire in a prayer meeting, killing nine people. The Church of the Nazarene is among the many denominations joining in prayer for the AME church and Charleston community.
USA/Canada Regional Director Bob Broadbooks released the following letter to global Nazarenes, asking for continued prayer and racial reconciliation:
Greetings,
Recent events in a house of God in Charleston, South Carolina, have broken the hearts of peace-loving people everywhere. We are sad that we are not entirely shocked by such events, which too often typify our lives. We have seen similar senseless violence transpire in schools, restaurants, and places of business. Now, to see a massacre occur in a peaceful place of prayer and worship breaks our hearts again. Decades ago, those who remember when four beautiful African-American girls were bombed in a Baptist church on 16th Street in Birmingham, Alabama, will recall the disbelief that a human being could subject another human being to such horror.
The Church of the Nazarene is grieving today and calls upon our people to pray for the families of the nine victims who were slain at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. We are moved by the expressions of forgiveness toward the perpetrator as expressed by family members of the deceased. We long for hatred to be banished and for peace to be established among us. We join our hearts in praying that God will help us to be numbered among the peacemakers that Jesus taught us to be when He said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9). May God help all Nazarenes to seek racial reconciliation and to strive to love people of every race, nation, culture, and class as one related human family.
Praying for peace,
Robert Broadbooks
USA/Canada Regional Director
Jerry D. Porter
J. K. Warrick
Eugénio R. Duarte
David W. Graves
David A. Busic
Gustavo A. Crocker
Board of General Superintendents
Church of the NazareneRwanda native shares testimony
East Ohio elects new district superintendent
Haiti pastor receives new house
Indianapolis District churches rally to support collapsing church
Trevecca Urban Farm receives award from Tennessee governor
NTS establishes first cohort for Spanish-language DMin
NTS establishes first cohort for Spanish-language DMin
Kansas City, Missouri

In response to an invitation by the Hispanic Strategy Committee for the Church of the Nazarene USA/Canada Region, Nazarene Theological Seminary and the Office of Multicultural Ministries established a Kansas City Spanish Doctor of Ministry (DMin) degree. Like its English counterpart, the degree's emphasis will be on Wesleyan pastoral theology.
“When Dr. Roberto Hodgson, USA/Canada Region Multicultural Ministries director, began the conversation about contacting NTS leadership to make the DMin program available to the Hispanic leadership in our denomination, it seemed a far away, very difficult, and perhaps impossible project," said Mario Zani, program coordinator for the Kansas City Spanish DMin program. "However, thanks to the vision and good will of a great team, the first residential seminar will be held in Kansas City this fall, October 12-22. We are excited to announce that the first cohort of students includes 13 proven leaders from across North America that will bring a wide array of skills, expertise, and experiences to the program.”
With more than 700 Hispanic Nazarene churches and congregations in the U.S., a dynamic immigration movement, and second- and third-generation Latinos permeating a majority of communities today, there is an ever-growing need for additional theological training for Hispanic pastors.
“At NTS, we desire to respond to the needs of the church and our communities as we prepare pastors and leaders for the future,” said Carla Sunberg, NTS president. “This Spanish-language DMin program is our response to the changing demographics in our churches and communities. News of the program has been very well received across the country, and it is great to have such a significant number of students in our first cohort. We are excited to see how the program will continue to grow.”
Applications for the next cohort of students are being accepted. Ministry leaders on the USA/Canada Region who have a master’s degree in theology or ministry and who are interested in a contextualized Spanish-language DMin should contact Mario Zani at zaniexrd@aol.com for further information.
The cost of the program for USA/Canada Nazarenes in the Spanish-language DMin degree is being supplemented by grants NTS received from foundations committed to multicultural theological education for ministers, as well as by the Office of Multicultural Ministries.
"There is a great support team that is working hard to make this a very rewarding experience for the entirety of the Church,” Zani said. “We are grateful for all the encouragement being provided to the candidates by district superintendents and local churches.”
More information on the NTS Doctor of Ministry degree program can be found on the NTS website at nts.edu/dmin.[Nazarene Theological Seminary] In Memoriam
June 26, 2015

The following is a weekly listing of Nazarene ministers and leaders who recently went home to be with the Lord. Notices were received June 22-26, 2015.
Paty Alvarez, 42, of Ecuador passed away June 12. She served as secretary for more than 10 years on the North Andean Field and at the Ecuador Mission. (story)
W. Dale Martin, 80, of Crossville, Tennessee, passed away June 17. He was a retired minister and evangelist, serving in Florida, Ohio, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Kentucky.
Anita McGarrah, 83, of Caldwell, Idaho, passed away June 21. She was the wife of retired minister Weber McGarrah, who served in Washington, Utah, and Idaho.
Alex Mkandawire of Malawi passed away June 18. He was the Nazarene Compassionate Ministries coordinator for Malawi. He is survived by his wife.
Pauline Roland, 87, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, passed away June 24. She was the widow of retired minister and evangelist Lessley Roland, who served in Oklahoma and Texas. Lessley Roland passed away in 1986.
For previous editions of In Memoriam, see the "Passings" section by clicking here.
Note: Please join with us in prayer for the families who have lost loved ones. Click on names for full stories, funeral information, local online obituaries, and/or guest books (if available). To submit an entry of a minister or church leader, send to news@nazarene.org.[Compiled by NCN News]
NMI Highlight

June Focus -
World Mission Broadcast
~ The Nazarene Media Library now has a specificWorld Mission Broadcast (WMB) category, making it easy to find, view and download WMB videos. Check it out...lots of video clips for NMI leaders and pastors to use with their WMB offering promotion and general WMB/mission awareness throughout the year.
You can follow WMB on Facebook to read about lives that are being touched through radio broadcast.

"Developing Leaders" by Stan Toler
ON BECOMING A TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER
20 Ways to Say Thank You!
Simple Strategies You Can Use to Affirm Your Team
I believe every person has a core need to be appreciated. When we are appreciated for who we are or for the contribution we have made, it boosts our self-esteem, increases our morale, and makes us feel like a valued part of the team.
However, many leaders are not very good at saying thanks. That could be because we tend to be highly focused, goal-oriented achievers. Once we have completed a project, we quickly move on to the next big thing.
That can leave team members to conclude that their contributions are not valued but merely expected. Everyone needs to hear these two magic words: thank you. They are incredibly powerful, especially when they are heartfelt and sincere.
If you struggle to express affirmation, here are 20 simple ideas you can use to affirm your team members. Try this, and see how it brightens your work environment.
  1. Send a handwritten note that says, "I'm glad you're part of the team!"
  2. Remember birthdays and anniversaries with a card or greeting.
  3. Give a mini-perk, like free tickets to the zoo, free car wash coupons, or a gift certificate to a favorite restaurant.
  4. Meet for lunch (on you) and ask, "How can I support your work?"
  5. "Sandwich" corrective comments between two compliments.
  6. Make a one-to-one contact by phone or in person at least once a month.
  7. In the presence of other team members, say, "Thanks for the great job on this project."
  8. Thank staff members for doing things that are part of their job description.
  9. Highlight significant achievements at every staff meeting.
  10. Give a staff member a day off after completing a big project.
  11. Treat the team to lunch once in a while.
  12. Praise your team members to your superiors-and let them know about it.
  13. Give regular performance evaluations and use them as opportunities to offer affirmation.
  14. Ask a staff member for an opinion on something that's not in his or her area of responsibility.
  15. Inquire about staff members' family life and health.
  16. Send an email that says, "I respect your skills."
  17. Use your annual report to celebrate team successes, not merely report numbers.
  18. Ask, "How can I pray for you this week?" and then be faithful to pray about the needs.
  19. Throw a party for staff and spouses to celebrate the achievement of year-long goals.
  20. In a one-on-one setting, say "Your contribution has eternal value because . . ."[Stan Toler]
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BLOG, CHURCH PLANTING, CURRENT, DISCIPLESHIP, FEATURE, SOUTHEAST ASIA, URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
ASIA-PACIFIC REGION WELCOMES THE BARBERS IN THAILAND!
Thailand, Southeast Asia: The Asia-Pacific Region is pleased to welcome Steve and Rebecca Barber, the newest team members on mission to make Christlike disciples in Thailand.
Steve and Rebecca came from Christian backgrounds. Both of them were active in their respective churches when they were growing up. As a matter of fact, it was their passion to serve God that brought them together.
In 2001, Steve was leading a small group Bible study. It was through this Bible study that Steve met Rebecca who happened to be serving in Kazakhstan at the time, teaching English and sharing the Good News. According to Steve, his attraction to Rebecca was immediate. “She has always been a tangible example of God’s amazing grace in my life,” said Steve. They married shortly after Rebecca’s return to the US.
Steve and Rebecca continued to serve God through discipleship. In 2007, they joined Grand Rapids International Fellowship (GRIF) and made significant contributions to the church. Steve worked with the youth pastor in ministering to urban teens who knew nothing of the Bible or God’s love for them. He also tutored English Language Learners (ELL) classes. Rebecca was also an ELL tutor, and took on other roles such as youth group prayer partner and mission council president. Additionally, she participated in a JESUS Film mission trip to Nicaragua in 2013.

Through the years, Steve and Rebecca’s desire to evangelize and disciple further intensified. The couple started attending missional events, that led them to participate in the Church of the Nazarene’s Cross-Cultural Orientation weekend. It was during this weekend that the couple found out that in the nation of Thailand, less than two percent of the population are Christians. The need for discipleship is overwhelming! God has finally solidified the couple’s call to missions.
Rebecca and Steve Barbers with Dr. Bill Kwon, Myanmar District Superintendent
Steve and Rebecca start their journey with the Southeast Asia field on the Asia-Pacific Region this month. We are very thankful to have them as part of the team, and we will be praying for a successful mission guided by the Holy Spirit. May their mission lead to more transformed lives in Thailand.Do you love to travel and learn new cultures? Do you feel like God is calling you to serve Him outside your country? Click here to find out more about Nazarene Mission Corps!
BLOG, CURRENT, URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
PRAYER REQUESTED FOR TEAM MEMBER SUFFERING WITH SHINGLES
Philippine / Micronesia: Prayer is being requested for Mission Team Member Virgil Albertson, who has been suffering with a severe case of the Shingles. He is in his second week of quarantine and is requesting prayer for a complete recovery.
With the high heat and humidity found this time of year in the Philippines, this has been a very difficult journey.
New Team Member welcomed to the Region.
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