Monday, April 11, 2016

Asia-Pacific Regional Communications of The Asia Pacific Region of the Global Church of the Nazarene of Manila, Philippians Around The Region News for Saturday, April 9, 2016, Volume 4 / Issue Number 13...Fiji Added to CDC Warnings of Zika Virus, APNTS Looking for New President, Australian Nazarenes Connecting Around the World, Churches Living in the Margins and so much more, plus prayer requests and praises.

Asia-Pacific Regional Communications of The Asia Pacific Region of the Global Church of the Nazarene of Manila, Philippians Around The Region  News for Saturday, April 9, 2016, Volume 4 / Issue Number 13...Fiji Added to CDC Warnings of Zika Virus, APNTS Looking for New President, Australian Nazarenes Connecting Around the World, Churches Living in the Margins and so much more, plus prayer requests and praises.




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This mission education resource is adapted from the annual adult and children's mission education curriculum. It is written in Global English and translated into French, Portuguese, Spanish, and other languages as they become available. For the first time, IMEJ will be released at approximately the same time as other mission education materials. It is now available for download free here.

"Developing Leaders" by Stan Toler
"Double the Impact of Attending a Leadership Conference"
I speak to leaders all over the country, thousands of them each year. Each week I meet many bright, active, highly engaged professionals who are dedicated to improving themselves and making an impact through their work.
Yet every time I speak, I'm amazed at the number of otherwise smart and competent individuals who make this rookie mistake when attending a keynote session or workshop-they don't take notes.
There are a number of reasons for this. Electronic devices, as advanced as they are, still lag in the area of note taking. Laptops are too large for many of these settings, and the typing and handwriting-to-text functions of tablets and smartphones aren't up to par.
Also, many conference attendees depend on printed handouts or downloadable speaker's notes to provide the takeaway content they need. That's why I strongly believe in handouts and workbooks.
However, it's a mistake to rely solely on such items.
Here are three good reasons why I take notes every time I attend a conference and listen to an outstanding speaker.
1. Note Taking Clarifies Thought
I think best when I'm writing, even when that's just writing down the ideas I've heard from a speaker. The act of writing sparks connections in my mind, reveals second and third layers of insight, and generates completely new thoughts, beyond what the speaker has delivered.
Write the key points the speaker makes, and add your own analysis and commentary.
2. Note Taking Engages the Whole Person
Writing is an active thing, and when you take notes you are more likely to focus, to engage the speaker, and to stay mentally sharp throughout the presentation. Writing is also visual, engaging a different part of your brain than does listening alone. When you take notes, you immerse yourself deeper into the experience of learning.
Write more than words. Use symbols, drawings, and spatial representations of ideas.
3. Note Taking Aids Memory
Everyone knows this; yet few of us do it. We remember things better when we write them down. That works for a keynote address as well as for a grocery list. Apart from rereading the notes later, the very act of writing them cements the ideas into your mind.
At the end of your notes, write the three top takeaways you hope to apply.
When you attend a conference, you benefit from the experience and expertise of proven leaders. When you take notes, you double or even triple the value of that learning!
What's your strategy for recording the insights of a conference or learning opportunity? Share your answer on Facebook or Twitter.[Stan Toler]
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Asia-Pacific Region
Greece

In March, 11 Nazarenes from Australia, Portugal and Spain formed a team for a vision prayer tour in Greece, with the hopes of establishing a registered ministry for the Church of the Nazarene there.
Six of the team members were from Australia and among them were Australia/ New Zealand Field Strategy Coordinator (FSC) Dr. John Moore, his wife Vicki, Australia South District Superintendent Rev. Satish Manmothe, Australia South District pastor Harry Malos, Melbourne team coordinator Rev. Steve Kasambalis, and Gretchen Freeman- Global Serve partner working in Australia. They were joined by Rev. Bruce McKellips- FSC of the West Med field of the Eurasia Region, visiting Greek Australians Charlton & Christine Kerr, and Joshua & Shannon Herndon, missionaries to Spain and recently appointed to start the work of the Church of the Nazarene in Greece.
During the visit, the team spent time in prayer and discussion with different people and organizations who could help in establishing a registered Church of the Nazarene in Greece possible.
Click here to Read all about the team's productive and meaningful trip!

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AUSTRALIANS CONNECTING WITH NAZARENES AROUND THE WORLD TO MAKING CHRISTLIKE DISCIPLES IN GREECE
Greece: In March, 11 Nazarenes from Australia, Portugal and Spain formed a team for a vision prayer tour in Greece, with the hopes of establishing a registered ministry for the Church of the Nazarene there.
Six of the team members were from Australia and among them were Australia/ New Zealand Field Strategy Coordinator (FSC) Dr. John Moore, his wife Vicki, Australia South District Superintendent Rev. Satish Manmothe, Australia South District pastor Harry Malos, Melbourne team coordinator Rev. Steve Kasambalis, and Gretchen Freeman- Global Serve partner working in Australia. They were joined by Rev. Bruce McKellips- FSC of the West Med field of the Eurasia Region, visiting Greek Australians Charlton & Christine Kerr, and Joshua & Shannon Herndon, missionaries to Spain and recently appointed to start the work of the Church of the Nazarene in Greece.
During the visit, the team spent time in prayer and discussion with different people and organizations who could help in establishing a registered Church of the Nazarene in Greece. They met with Evangelical leaders across all denominations, visited various humanitarian Christian organizations, consulted with pastors, legal people, NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) and one Orthodox humanitarian organization. They also visited places of biblical and archeological significance, such as Athens, Corinth, Thessaloniki, Philippi and Mikri Volvi.
One of the trip’s highlights was their trip to Indomeni, where they assisted refugees trapped in “no man’s land,” located at the border of Former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Greece.Read the full story here!
Q&A: Missionary talks visit to Greek refugee camp by Gina Grate Pottenger

The first week of March, Joshua and Shannon Herndon, missionaries to Spain, visited Greece, where they will be relocating to start the Church of the Nazarene this summer (read more). They met with evangelical leaders who are already at work there, and have offered to help the family make connections and get to know potential partners.
They met with Michael Long, a Free Methodist Missionary. He has been visiting refugee camps in different areas of Greece to help assess the needs. On March 4, he took the Herndons, as well as Bruce McKellips, who leads the Western Mediterranean Field, which includes Greece, to the Idomeni refugee camp on the Greek side of the border with Macedonia.
Shannon shared what she saw and heard at Idomeni, and how it might affect their plans for future ministry there. (Read more about how the denomination is responding to the refugee situation throughout the Eurasia Region.)
What did you experience when you visited the Idomeni refugee camp?
We went not knowing what we were going to see or do. When we got there, it was amazing: You see it on the news, the thousands of people that are there. Just the week before, [Michael Long] had been to that same camp and there had been a few hundred. So he was blown away that there were thousands of people.
Before we went, we had bought some food, and brought clothes that Michael gathered. We distributed clothes, fresh fruit, cookies. We just went around and talked with people, saw the different nonprofit organizations, such as Doctors Without Borders. In Greece, the government has basically decided they want to be hands off. They don’t have resources to deal with the influx of people. So the real help that is happening within the refugee community comes from Christian organizations, not-for-profits, individuals that come. It’s not government driven.
There were 3-hour-long lines for food. Hundreds of people in line. It was a rainy day, the kids – you just see the need for shoes. I saw children barefooted, running around in the mud. Multiple children just have one shoe on; that’s the only shoe they own, maybe they’re sharing the other shoe with a sibling or lost it along the way.
How did what you saw in Greece square with the news this week in which four countries north of Greece closed their borders to refugees?
Everybody is stuck there now. There’s this huge backup. In Greece they are building hot spots [retention centers where refugees will live until they’re processed and allowed to continue on or sent to Turkey] that are going to hold up to 50,000 people. You are talking entire cities of refugees. They expect them to be full. On average, 3,000 people arrive per day to Greece and they don’t have the infrastructure to deal with that number of people since all the borders are closed.
We met with Syrians; we came across multiple Iraqis, Afghanis. The Afghanis had documents to cross borders legally, but they’re not allowing Afghanis whether they have documents or not. That is what the border police are telling us. If they’re not letting anybody in, they’re just not letting anybody in.
There were young men talking about their entire villages – the men were being killed. The option was to join [extremist groups] or be killed or run, so they chose to leave. We heard that story echoed many times.
There were many, many children. That’s heartbreaking to see. The majority you see were sick, whether it was cold or coughs, because they’re in the cold and the wet. They don’t have good food to eat, not healthy things that keep your immune systems up and going. You don’t sleep well when you’re in a tent with large numbers of people. The kids, you see them suffering.
There are little bright spots, though. You see the joy on the kids’ faces. The parents are stressed and exhausted, but kids are kids no matter where you’re at. They were making balls out of anything they had to play with. Groups of kids came up calling Josh ‘Spikey,’ because Josh’s hair – it’s spikey on top.
Some of [the people] came up and took pictures with us with their cameras, documenting their own journey for themselves. We weren’t the only ones who were wanting to see and document things.
What kind of stories or comments did you hear from the people?
They talked about the experience of being stuck. So many people said they had been already a few months in Greece. Once you get from Turkey to the islands you have to figure out then how to get from the island you landed on to mainland Greece. That’s another ferry; another expense; another journey. A lot of them get stuck on the island for months before they have the finances and ability to move on to mainland Greece.
Once they land they have to get from Athens in the south and make their way somehow, whether it’s cars, trucks, buses or walking. It’s a five-hour drive from Athens to Thessaloniki. I don’t know what a bus trip would be. They make their journey to the north and now the borders are closed at Macedonia. There’s a fence with razor wire at the Macedonia and Greece border that wasn’t there before. Mike, who has been going the past few months, he said it’s new.
What does all this mean for the Greek people?
You can see on the other side of the fence there’s a small village there in Macedonia. What must those people have been experiencing to suddenly have a fence and wire? They could have walked across the fields to Greece; nobody cared. There was no control. Maybe those villagers are related to or have friends across the border. You think about the Greeks and Macedonians and how their lives have changed in kind of an instant. That was kind of an interesting thought as well: It’s not just the refugees whose lives are being changed and altered. It’s the Greeks and Macedonians as well. Their lives are being changed.
One of the pastors from Australia is a psychologist, his name is Harry. Harry was saying he was meeting with a social worker, a Greek woman, and her job works with the refugees because they’re in such psychological stress. She’s providing counseling services through the government, which is providing medical services. She said she finds herself in conflict, because she’s providing these services to refugees when she says her own people are in such need. She feels conflicted that she should be helping her own people rather than people that are passing through.
There’s a struggle for the Greek people to know what to do in this situation. They are in desperate need for food and electricity and clothing, and now we have these thousands of people coming through and they also need all these things and how do we provide that? The Greek people just don’t have that.
You’re moving to Greece this summer. When you developed the plan for launching Nazarene ministry in Greece, the refugee situation wasn’t even happening in Greece. Does this new reality alter what you’re planning to go there and do?
We’re still really actively praying about what our part will be. In going, we have to do language study since we’re brand new and there’s no Nazarene presence in Greece. It’s not the same as coming to a country that has a need where the church is already established.
That being said, there’s obviously a need and Nazarene Compassionate Ministries (NCM) is obviously involved in the refugee situation; all the work [NCM has] been doing is north of the Macedonia and Greece border. We would be capable of facilitating work on the Greek side. We have been talking about facilitating Work & Witness teams wanting to come and help with the refugee crisis and partnering with people already there. It may not be our focus, but we see ourselves playing a part in partnering with people who are already there and being active. There are good organizations already in place and they definitely need support and supplies and anything that could be provided. We might be at this point better served in partnering rather than creating something new.
Once you get eyes on the situation and you see the magnitude of the situation you can’t step back and say, “I’m not interested.” We really feel like our call in pioneering the work in Greece – in partnering with Greek people – our hope is with reaching out and partnering with other ministries, we will come across Greeks who are interested in volunteering to help or possibly are in real need.
In coming across all these refugees in need, you come across nationals in need. Maybe we would be able to reach out to the communities around refugee camps as well – to minister to the Greek people while also reaching out to the refugee community.
In Greece the evangelical church is very small. This will be positive to partner with others. If we want to be a long-term presence, we need to build strong relationships with the people that are already there. That would be another really positive outcome of working with refugees. With the partnerships and relationships we can build with the evangelical community a foundation for ministry in Greece.
The team had chosen Greece for various reasons. Their economy, political situation and the influx of millions of refugees have caused the people to become fearful and despondent. Also, recent census shows that 88.3% of the population are Christians (source- joshuaproject.net), but during the team’s visit they found that church attendance is low and it seems that the Greeks’ personal relationship with the living God is not well understood.
This makes Greece a country of urgency for Nazarene Mission work. The Church of the Nazarene, with its holistic message of Christ’s salvation, compassionate and humanitarian assistance, makes it the right organization to meet the real needs of modern Greeks. The country doesn’t just need political, economic or social assistance, but a true spiritual awakening as well.
The city of Thessaloniki has been chosen for future Nazarene work. As in the days of Apostle Paul, Thessaloniki – modern day, “Saloniki,” was selected for its strategic position in the Balkans, being the gateway city to three continents: east to Asia, north to Europe and south to Africa.
While the planning and preparation for the trip was done swiftly, Dr. John Moore shares, “it was slowly born from a dream and a concern that was planted many years before as Greek immigrants left their homeland and settled in Australia giving the island continent one of the largest expatriate Greek communities in the world. At one time there were more Greeks living in Melbourne than in Athens. Over the decades, many Greek Churches of the Nazarene were planted in Australia, and a thirst developed to take this gospel of holiness back to the land from which it had first been preached. When the Australia South District learned of the possibility of Nazarene Missionaries being sent to Greece, the plan got underway to go to Greece to offer assistance as it would be useful.”
This trip is only the beginning of a long-term partnership as the Australian church seeks to develop avenues of assisting the blossoming efforts of the Herndons, their children and the Church of the Nazarene in Greece.
With all the places that they’ve been and the people that they’ve met, perhaps the apex of the team’s trip was witnessing how God is opening the doors for the Church of the Nazarene to enter into this great land. The members of the team are very grateful for each other and would like to thank the people who partnered with them in prayer.
“As the Church of the Nazarene prepares to enter the ancient land of Greece, it was a historic moment for us to walk in the footsteps of the great apostle Paul when he preached the message of holiness to the church in Greece about two thousand years ago by saying, ‘For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.’ (1 Thess 4:7) ‘What a privilege it is for our missionaries to be Christ’s ambassadors to implore the people of Greece to be reconciled to God!’ (2 Cor. 5:20)”[Rev. Satish Manmothe, District Superintent- Australia South District]
Please consider making this a focal point of prayer in the days ahead, as the church responds to this challenge but also tremendous opportunity.[Submitted by: Rev. Steven Kasambalis (with assistance from Vicki Moore) Thank you also to Engage Magazine.] 
CDC Issues Zika Virus Travel Notice For Fiji
Fiji
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted a Zika Virus travel notice For Fiji on April 4.
Zika Virus Disease, or simply Zika, is a disease that could be acquired through a mosquito bite. Symptoms to watch out for are rashes, fever, joint pains and redness of eyes. Recent reports have also been received that the disease could be acquired through sexual contact. Although the virus is not considered deadly, it is especially risky for pregnant women, as the infection could affect the baby as well, which could cause serious birth defects. To date, there is no known vaccine to prevent the disease.
CDC issued a Level 2 (Practice Enhanced Precaution) Travel Notice, and will give updates as soon as more information becomes available.
Prevention is better than cure! Click here to read the story on our website, and to access links to get more information about the Zika Virus.

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CDC ISSUES ZIKA VIRUS TRAVEL NOTICE FOR FIJI
Fiji: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted a Zika Virus travel notice for Fiji on April 4.Read: CDC Adds Fiji to Interim Travel Guidance Related to Zika Virus
Aedes Aegypti mosquito. Photo courtesy of www.cdc.gov.
Zika Virus Disease, or simply Zika, is a disease that could be acquired through a mosquito bite. Symptoms to watch out for are rashes, fever, joint pains and redness of eyes.
Recent reports have also been received that the disease could be acquired through sexual contact. Although the virus is not considered deadly, it is especially risky for pregnant women, as the infection could affect the baby as well, which could cause serious birth defects. To date, there is no known vaccine to prevent the disease.
CDC issued a Level 2 (Practice Enhanced Precaution) Travel Notice, and will give updates as soon as more information becomes available.
Photo courtesy of www.cdc.gov.
For more information about Zika Virus Disease, click here.
You could also download CDC’s factsheet by following this link.
CDC Adds Fiji to Interim Travel Guidance Related to Zika Virus
Media Statement
For Immediate Release: Monday, April 4, 2016
Contact: Media Relations,
(404) 639-3286
CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing Zika virus‎ transmission. Today, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for Fiji. CDC has issued travel notices (level 2, “practice enhanced precautions”) for people traveling to destinations with Zika. For a full list of affected countries/regions, visit http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/zika-travel-information.
As more information becomes available, CDC’s travel notices will be updated. Travelers to areas with cases of Zika virus infection are at risk of being infected with the Zika virus. Mosquitoes that spread Zika are aggressive daytime biters. They also bite at night. There is no vaccine or medicine for Zika virus. The best way to avoid Zika virus infection is to prevent mosquito bites.
Some travelers to areas with Zika will become infected while traveling but will not become sick until they return home and they might not have any symptoms. To help stop the spread of Zika, travelers should use insect repellent for three weeks after travel to prevent mosquito bites.
Some people who are infected do not have any symptoms. People who do have symptoms have reported fever, rash, joint pain, and red eyes. The sickness is usually mild with symptoms that last from several days to a week. Severe disease requiring hospitalization is uncommon and the number of deaths is low. Travelers to areas with Zika should monitor for symptoms or sickness upon return. If they become sick, they should tell their healthcare professional when and where they have traveled.
CDC has received reports of Zika virus being spread by sexual contact with sick returning travelers. Until more is known, CDC continues to recommend that pregnant women and women trying to become pregnant take the following precautions.
Pregnant women
Should not travel to any area with Zika.
If you must travel to or live in one of these areas, talk to your healthcare provider first and strictly follow steps to prevent mosquito bites.
If you have a male partner who lives in or has traveled to an area with Zika, either use condoms, the right way, every time you have sex or do not have sex during your pregnancy.
Women trying to get pregnant
Before you or your male partner travel, talk to your healthcare provider about your plans to become pregnant and the risk of Zika virus infection.
You and your male partner should strictly follow steps to prevent mosquito bites.
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is very likely triggered by Zika in a small proportion of infections, much as it is after a variety of other infections. CDC is working with Brazil to study the possibility of a link between Zika and GBS. For more information on Zika, visit www.cdc.gov/zika.
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Manila, Philippines

The Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary (APNTS) Board of Trustees (BOT) is pleased to invite applications for the position of President with its primary campus in Manila, Philippines. Please follow the below link to see the listing of qualifications that the BOT is seeking for the applicants.
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APNTS SEEKING APPLICANTS FOR SCHOOL PRESIDENT – DEADLINE MAY 30, 2016
Philippines: Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary (APNTS) Board of Trustees (BOT) is pleased to invite applications for the position of President with its primary campus in Manila, Philippines. The BOT is seeking a person who has the following characteristics:
  • A transformational leader: A visionary, self- assured, entrepreneur, team developer, listener; one who empowers others, is comfortable with risk-taking, and creates positive ethos.
  • Demonstrated missional effectiveness: A person with the ability to move APNTS to an expanding multi-site, various delivery models and enable extension centers to thrive.
  • An effective transformational pastor: A person who demonstrates the ability to make disciples that make disciples, a person mature in fruit of the Spirit.
  • Administrative abilities: A person with the ability to guide resources to effective, multi-site strategic use, including the ability to manage finance, operations, campus facilities and environment.
  • Effective cross-cultural communicator: A person who appreciates, understands and communicates effectively across multiple cultures and contexts.
  • Known for personal doctrinal integrity: A person who is in harmony with the message and mission of the Church of the Nazarene.
  • The BOT envisions APNTS transitioning from a single campus system to a viable multi-site school, utilizing a variety of delivery systems relevant to the contexts throughout Asia Pacific and South Asia. The new president will give priority to making this transition take place.
Please submit letter of application and curriculum vitae to Chairman Rev. Kafoa Muaror and Dr. John Moore by clicking on this link not later than May 30, 2016.
NCM Magazine Releases Spring Issue!
Nazarene Compassionate Ministries

NCM Magazine has just recently released their spring issue, with their feature story, "Ministry in the Margins: How Churches Are Living Out Compassion Among the Least of These." Follow the inspiring narrative of an individual called by her church to work with families displaced by violence in the Philippines.
You could also read the following stories in NCM Magazine's latest offering:
Volunteers in Swaziland care for people living with HIV/AIDS
Click here to read the full issue, and find out how you can subscribe to the magazine!
Choosing Faith Over Fear
Holiness Today

We live in a world inundated with fear. A sense of danger lurks in the shadows. Our comfort zones evaporate all around us. Muggings, drive-by shootings, workplace violence-we can feel our security threatened by hateful hands. And unbelievably, now we must face the reality of global terrorist threats inflicting harm on innocent citizens. Questions roll around in our heads as we attempt to negotiate daily life. Is it safe to take public transportation? Should I cancel my next airplane trip? Can I safely take my family to a sporting event at the local stadium?
How should we live when our sense of safety has been stolen from us?
Read more on how NOT to be afraid despite this time of uncertainty! Click here!
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CHOOSING FAITH OVER FEAR…
Holiness Today: We live in a world inundated with fear. A sense of danger lurks in the shadows. Our comfort zones evaporate all around us. Muggings, drive-by shootings, workplace violence—we can feel our security threatened by hateful hands. And unbelievably, now we must face the reality of global terrorist threats inflicting harm on innocent citizens. Questions roll around in our heads as we attempt to negotiate daily life. Is it safe to take public transportation? Should I cancel my next airplane trip? Can I safely take my family to a sporting event at the local stadium?
How should we live when our sense of safety has been stolen from us? I have always been intrigued by a phrase found about 100 times in the Bible: Do not be afraid. Most often that admonition comes from the Lord or one of his messengers. The fact that God repeats that phrase to so often should remind us that those who have gone before—in every generation—have had as we do reason to fear.
Sometimes those fears resulted from uncertain circumstances in individuals’ lives. Sometimes they come from the specter of frightening futures. Often they emerge from others seeking to bring harm. Regardless of the source of the uncertainty, God’s response remains the same: Do not be afraid.
I received a fresh reminder of this truth when I read Joshua 10:8. “The Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them; I have given them into your hand. Not one of them will be able to withstand you.” The passage of Joshua 10:1-15 recounts the story of God going before Joshua and his men in a fight against five armies of soldiers who planned an attack on Hebrew allies. God worked several miracles to guarantee victory. The most obvious miracle occurred as God stopped the earth’s rotation for a day.
Sophisticated computers in the field of astronomy report an anomaly in the heavens around that time period that lasted for 23 hours and 20 minutes. I think Joshua 10:13 appropriately accounts for that anomaly. God also gave the Hebrew soldiers incredible strength to travel all night and then fight for nearly 48 hours. Further, God brought psychological confusion and disorientation to their enemies, providing a tactical advantage (Judges 10:10). This story of victory from God illustrates just one example of how he helped his people choose faith over fear.
I think the Lord has the same word for us used when he comforted his people with throughout biblical history. He reaches out to us with the same message proclaimed down through the ages: Do not be afraid.
The Old Testament account of God’s people finds them in threat of peril, domination, or exile throughout much of their history. Often the context of God’s appeal to them not to be afraid came in their most vulnerable circumstances. Every time, God reminded them that he was walking every step with them and would provide for them in times of their deepest need.
I take heart in that fact. We live in a world filled with the shadows of danger and threats. But we serve a God who walks with us and whispers those comforting words our ears long to hear: Do not be afraid. I chose faith over fear.
Frank M. Moore, editor-in-chief of Holiness Today
Be sure and visit Holiness Today online, for more great inspirational content.
Parenting in a Sexualized Culture - Webinar
Regional Announcement

Parenting in the 21st Century is very different than in years before. The amount of information available to children 24/7 over the Internet is overwhelming. Kids today have smart phones and tablets and use social media. It is estimated that kids today are exposed to over 14,000 sexualized messages each year. Raising children in this sexualized culture requires intentional measures to protect them.
Read about this webinar available for you with new tools and strategies designed to help parents raise kids in this digital sexualized age and not only survive, but thrive.
Click here to learn more and register for this webinar.
New Early Bird Rate Ends April 14th. Register Today!
Nazarene Compassionate Ministries

Because of the overwhelming response to the global Compassion Conference, we've extended the 20% discount through Thursday, April 14, to allow time for those of you who may still be working this through scheduling and approval processes.
The Church of the Nazarene, through Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, is hostingCompassion ConferenceJuly 14-16, 2016, at Olivet Nazarene University.
If you are a Regional Director or a Field Strategy Coordinator, you will receive complimentary admittance to the conference, plus lodging and meals, at no cost to you. To register, you will need a special promotional code. Please contact us atinfo@ncm.org to obtain that code.
For other participants, the following discounts are available:
* International Discount: We are offering a special discount of 50% off for conference participants traveling from outside the United States and Canada. This discount is available through June 1, but if you register before April 14, you will receive 50% off the discounted Early Bird price. Use this promotional code: INTL0827
* Early Bird Discount: Register before April 14 and receive Early Bird pricing - $100 off the regular price. No promotional code is necessary.
* Group Discount: For groups of 10 or more from USA/Canada, register using the Group option and save an additional 10%. No promotional code is necessary.
Please contact us if you have additional questions at info@ncm.org.
Follow the link to find out more and how to register!
See What's Happening Around the World with the Latest WMC News Release

Asia-Pacific
This week we look at how the Central Panama district is committed to reaching out. We also head to the Middle East to explore an evangelistic program being aired on a secular Arabic television station. But first we visit the First Yurt of the Nazarene in Mongolia!
Check out this week's new WMC News and share with your church, family, and friends!

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Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary Highlights

The Graduate Certificate in Intercultural Studies (15 credits) is intended both for those preparing for cross-cultural service and for those already in cross-cultural ministry who would be helped by continuing education.
All subjects are offered for 3-hours graduate credit that may be transferred to other APNTS programs.
Don't delay in finding out more information!
Click here for the brochure and curriculum inclusions.
Around the Region News Archive
Asia-Pacific

Do you remember seeing a particular story in one of our weekly newsletters?
Are you wishing you could send a copy of a previous newsletter to a friend? Be sure to check out the Around The Region Weekly Newsletter Archive.
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This newsletter is a ministry of your Asia-Pacific Regional Communications Office. Please submit questions or comments to: Regional Communications Coordinator
Connie Aebischer - Editor - Around the Region News
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Around the Region is released each week on Saturday. If you have news to share, please forward to our office by Friday at noon (PHT).
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