Thursday, August 30, 2018

Around the Region - Peter Robinson, Librarians minister in NTC-AKL WnW Team at VNBC and more!!! Volume 6, Issue 16 for Thursday, 30 August 2018 from The Global Church of the Nazarene Asia Pacific Region in Kaytikling, Taytay, Rizal, Manila 1920 Philippines

Around the Region - Peter Robinson, Librarians minister in NTC-AKL WnW Team at VNBC and more!!! Volume 6, Issue 16 for Thursday, 30 August 2018 from The Global Church of the Nazarene Asia Pacific Region in Kaytikling, Taytay, Rizal, Manila 1920 Philippines
VOLUME 6, ISSUE 16 THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2018
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Peter and Enid Robinson in 1984
Pioneer Australian Pastor Rev. Peter Alfred Robinson, former District Secretary and member of the District Advisory Board of the Australia Southern District and former member of the Board of Nazarene Theological College (Thornlands, Australia), went to be with the Lord on Sunday 19 August 2018 in his hometown of Adelaide, South Australia at the age of 91.

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Pioneer Australian Pastor Rev. Peter Alfred Robinson, former District Secretary and member of the District Advisory Board of the Australia Southern District and former member of the Board of Nazarene Theological College (Thornlands, Australia), went to be with the Lord on Sunday 19 August 2018 in his hometown of Adelaide, South Australia at the age of 91. Pastor “Robby” was one of the few remaining pioneers of the Church of the Nazarene in Australia, having received the experience of entire sanctification as a Baptist junior police constable during a revival held at the Adelaide (later Croydon Park) Church of the Nazarene in 1950. Peter became one of 6 laymen transformed in this revival who later became pastors in the Church of the Nazarene.
Born on 25 March 1927 in Adelaide, the capital city of the state of South Australia, Peter married the former Enid Ruth Slater on 12 February 1949 and were the parents of 2 sons, Bret Robinson and Lindsay Robinson. In 1954 Peter and Enid relocated 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) to Sydney, to enroll in Nazarene Bible College, then located in the suburb of Thornleigh, that was founded by Dr. Richard S. Taylor in February 1953. After several months of study, Rev. A.A.E. Berg, District Superintendent of the Australia District since December 1948, invited Peter to pioneer the Church of the Nazarene in the Central Queensland coastal city of Mackay, 1,720 kilometres (1,070 miles) north of Sydney, and almost 700 kilometres (430 miles) from the nearest Church of the Nazarene. After 12 months of holding meetings in the rented house, the Robinsons returned to Sydney, where Peter became the Pastor of the Birrong Church of the Nazarene (formed by the merger of Burwood and Campsie, the first Australian Nazarene church founded in 1946), and continued his studies at NBC. In 1958 the Robinsons accepted a call to pastor the Stafford Church of the Nazarene in the northern suburbs of Brisbane.

Rev. Robinson in 1970
In February 1959 Peter was ordained an elder in the Church of the Nazarene by General Superintendent Dr. Daniel I. Vanderpool at the Coorparoo church. At the end of 1963, the Robinsons returned to Adelaide, where Peter became the pastor of his home church at Croydon Park. After the creation of the Australia Southern District in February 1977, Peter served as a member of the initial District Advisory Board, and as District Secretary from 1983 to 1992, and also for 3 years as a member of Nazarene Theological College, which had relocated to Thornlands (an exurb of Brisbane) in 1976. While pastoring the Birrong church for the second time from 1980 to 1985, Pastor Peter was responsible for an extensive expansion, renovation, and beautification of the church building. After a pastorate at the Ingle Farm church in Adelaide, Peter retired from the ministry in 1992, subsequently transferring his membership to the Logan Community church and then the Capalaba Community church in Queensland and his credentials to the Australia Northern Pacific District. On 16 March 2008, the Robinsons were presented with a Distinguished Service Award by the Capalaba church in recognition of more than 60 years of dedicated loyal service to Christ through the Church of the Nazarene in Australia. Despite health concerns, including a heart attack in 2014, Pastor Robbie preached as the opportunity was given, and attended church regularly in Adelaide. He is survived by his wife of 69 years, Enid; elder son Bret and his wife, Moira; and younger son, Lindsay and his two children.
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Librarians from around the world teamed-up to minister in Nazarene Theological College - Auckland and cataloged almost 5000 books in a span of two weeks!
Auckland, New Zealand. For nearly three years, Nazarene Theological College has been flourishing on their Auckland campus (NTC-AKL). They had students, courses, and professors. However, they lacked a library.
Lacking a library did not mean a lack of books. For many years, Lon Dagley, a computer services librarian from MidAmerica Nazarene University, partnered with NTC-AKL in gathering books from personal collections, Nazarene libraries in the States, and from the main campus in Brisbane, Australia. He would send boxes or suitcases filled with books to send to the newly planted campus for years. Now with almost 5,000 books in their hands, NTC-AKL had no means of organizing them all for the students to use. Dagley realized he could not do this alone.
That is when Dagley called on his fellow librarians: Debra Bradshaw, the library director of Nazarene Theological Seminary(Kansas City, MO), Noreen Del Rosario, the library director of Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary (Manila, The Philippines), and Meagan Towle, a high school librarian from North Modified Unified School District (Lenexa, KS). With just four librarians, they only had two weeks to catalog nearly 5,000 books.

Noreen Del Rosario of APNTS
By the last day, a total of 4,400 books were ready for checkout accompanied by a newly acquired computer and scanner. Nearly a dozen bags filled with duplicate books were ready to transport for other NTC sites around the region.
“It stretched my library skills beyond their limits.” Noreen said, “It was really hard work. The impossible was made possible through God’s strength.” Fellow librarian Debbie stated, “It was a miracle we got it all done.”
Classes on the Auckland campus are underway, but now future pastors and church leaders are ready with resources thanks to book donations and the efforts of a few librarians from around the world. (Jaron Graham)
From Upstate New York District to Cebu, Philippines, a Work and Witness team was put to work on the Visayan Nazarene Bible College (VNBC) campus. The district team also worked with children, teaching them songs, stories, and games.
Cebu, Philippines. From Upstate New York District to Cebu, Philippines, a Work and Witness team was put to work on the Visayan Nazarene Bible College (VNBC)campus. The members lugged buckets of concrete up flights of stairs, shoveled sand and rocks into bags, and renovated a portion of the dorms and classrooms. Judy, a member of the Work and Witness team said, “My favorite part was working on the site, shoveling gravel and sand into the sacks and knowing my dripping sweat would be part of that building forever”
The district team also worked with children, teaching them songs, stories, and games. When they weren’t working, the team was given a chance to see the needs and ministries of Cebu. Through the International Justice Mission (IJM) and Evan Rey Macasa, they were made aware of the human trafficking in Cebu and the Church of the Nazarene’s response in prevention and training. The team also visited Gualandi Mission for the Deaf where they learned about local education for eaf and hard of hearing children. The children were especially encouraged by Tamla, a Deaf member of the district team.
VNBC capped the week off with a celebration meal for the team, students, faculty, and construction workers. Team coordinator, Rachel, shared, “Our family has grown since the meeting, working with and worshiping with all the amazing people at VNBC. We are prayerfully considering when we can come back!”
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Following Jesus is difficult. It’s not for those who seek comfort or personal gain. Quite the opposite; more than once Jesus makes it clear that to follow Him we must be willing to forsake everything we care about, our families, our wealth, and our homes. Will you allow this rejection of comforting memories to offend you and turn you away? Or will you embrace the Bread of Life that Jesus offers to truly be transformed?
When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?” But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, “Does this offend you? (John 6:60-61)
Following Jesus is difficult. It’s not for those who seek comfort or personal gain. Quite the opposite; more than once Jesus makes it clear that to follow Him we must be willing to forsake everything we care about, our families, our wealth, and our homes.
The passage here in John 6:56-69 shows us not just the challenge that Jesus extends to us, but also the response of those who were with Jesus on earth to that challenge. Jesus teaches them that He is the Bread of Life. In verse 60, the disciples respond, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?” Sensing their hesitation, Jesus asks them if they find his words offensive. Later on in verse 66, we read that many of Jesus’s followers indeed thought His words were too challenging, and turned away from Him.
The offensiveness of the Gospel is sometimes a point of pride among Christians. We might consider it proof that we understand something the world does not. The example of love and sacrifice presented Christ here and elsewhere in the Gospels is certainly offensive to the world around us. But soon we realize it is also offensive to we who have spent our lives in the church. Here we see this offensiveness laid out for the so-called faithful. In declaring Himself the bread of life, Jesus subtly devalues the heritage His Jewish listeners celebrated. They received bread in the wilderness, but it was only bread that would sustain them for one more day. That miracle could merely delay death a little longer. How much greater is this bread that Jesus offers, that fills our spirits and renews us? They no longer needed to look to their past or traditions to sustain them. God was doing something amazing at that very moment.
Like the Hebrews in the time of Jesus, the church in the 21stCentury is steeped in tradition. We have many great stories of our faith, both biblical and personal. I know that my own life is filled with stories like that, how God intervened in the lives of friends and family. We all have cherished traditions that inform our worship. These memories and traditions are inspiring, but inspiration is not the point of following Jesus. These moments will not sustain us. Jesus has called us to so much more. He has called us to confess our sins, to be renewed through the power of the Holy Spirit, and to be transformed by the Spirit into a new kind of person. These transformed people are beyond the world’s understanding. This world understands traditions and memories, but it could never understand how people could be transformed to no longer obey the law of death that they believe to be the final word. Will you allow this rejection of comforting memories to offend you and turn you away? Or will you embrace the Bread of Life that Jesus offers to truly be transformed? (Nate Owens is the Regional Communications Coordinator for the Asia-Pacific Region)
The four Gospels––Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John––present us with astonishing insights into the person and life of Jesus Christ. In them Jesus is presented as a teacher radically challenging the traditional interpretations of the law provided by the existing scholars of his time.
The four Gospels––Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John––present us with astonishing insights into the person and life of Jesus Christ. In them Jesus is presented as a teacherradically challenging the traditional interpretations of the law provided by the existing scholars of his time (“you have heard that it was said… but I tell you,” Matt 5:21-22, 27–28, 31-32, 33-34, 38-39, 43-44, 11:22, 24, 36). He is a revolutionary who challenged the religious, economic, and political insights and practices of his own people (Matt 15:1-20). He is a healer going around the villages, addressing both physical (Mark 1:29–33) and spiritual deaths. He is both a superstar (Matt 21:1-11; Mark 6:31) and a supervillain (Matt 21:12-17; 26:47; 27:22). He is a preacher of the good news of the coming kingdom (Mark 1:14-15). He is an exorcist defeating demons and releasing captives free (Mark 1:32-34). He is like Captain Planet able to control and command the forces of nature (Matt 8:23-27; 14:22-27). He is a miracle-worker able even to raise the dead back to life (Matt 9:18-25). But also, in the midst of all these wonderful depictions of who Jesus is, the Gospels interestingly and consistently portray Jesus as a human being.
What overwhelms me, however, and really catches my attention is the portrayal of the sheer humanness of Jesus. We read about him as a baby at a dirty, smelly stable at Bethlehem, surrounded by his father, mother, a few shepherds, and probably some animals (Luke 2:4-16). He was a baby circumcised on the eighth day, bleeding from the cut (Luke 2:21). He was a boy growing in wisdom, being taught by his parents about righteousness (Luke 2:40, 52). We read about him sitting tired and thirsty at the well outside Samaria, hoping for a drink (John 4:6). We read about him being so exhausted because of the many people flocking to him (Mark 6:31). We read about him trying to regain his strength by sleeping at the back of a boat (Matt 8:23-25). We read about him being hungry for figs on the way to Jerusalem, and childishly looking for fruit (Mark 11:12-13). We read about him weeping at the news of the death of his friend Lazarus (John 11:35). We read him thirsting for water on the cross (John 19:28). These are the things that fascinate me: God becoming human and sharing our human experiences of limitations and weaknesses.
God is portrayed to be not only with us as Immanuel, but as one of us, sharing in our hunger, thirst, tears, pain, and even death. If in the realization that Jesus is God we are confronted by One who is transcendent, exalted, and extremely other; in the realization that Jesus is human, we are confronted by One who is so imminent, so near, and so mundane. In the human Christ we have One who is willing to sit among us and beside us, willing to be embraced and willing to embrace, willing to enter our not-so-tidy homes, willing to dine with us in our own messy kitchen, willing to sit down in our sofa chairs, willing to chat with us, willing to listen to our troubles and stories, willing to be there in our own level as finite, ordinary, and even nervous human beings. This is the good news about the God-man, Jesus Christ. (Dr. Dick Eugenio is the Academic Dean of Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary and SDMI Field Coordinator of the Philippine-Micronesia Field.)
Announcements
You are invited to the 2019 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, to be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The theme for this event will be “Unleash The Power.” Join us in Chiang Mai as we learn what God has in store for our church when we are willing to embrace His plan for us!
You are invited to attend the next Asia-Pacific Regional Conference: Unleash the Power 2019! We believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is strong enough to move mountains and sensitive enough to urge hearts toward change. There will be time for you to connect with others who serve in your area of ministry as well as engage in field break-out sessions. Conference topics will focus on how the power of the Holy Spirit is unleashed to move in the following areas:
  • Seeking the Kingdom First
  • Discipleship
  • Church Multiplication
  • Intergenerational Faith Communities
  • Compassionate Churches
  • Christlike Leadership
  • Using Loving Dialogue
Laity, clergy and ministry coordinators who serve on the Asia-Pacific region are encouraged to register. Prayerfully consider attending this exciting conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand from October 19-22, 2019.
Register Now!
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Early bird registration* is $300 per person and includes:
  • All Sessions
  • Lodging (double occupancy) 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22 -October-2019.
  • All Meals for the duration of the conference (Breakfast on 19th to Breakfast on 23rd)
  • Transport from Chiang Mai Airport (CNX) to Venue and back to CNX Airport
  • Event Materials
*Late registration begins June 1, 2019, wherein the registration fee will be raised by $50 per person.
Registration Fees DO NOT INCLUDE:
VISA Fees (if applicable)
Airport Departure Fees / Taxes
Transportation costs from your resident country to and from the Chiang Mai airport
Extra / Optional Tours that may be available – details forthcoming
Personal snacks/spending
How To Pay
Registration Fees should be paid to your Field Conference Coordinator or Field Treasurer (District Conference Coordinator for Japan, Taiwan, and S. Korea). If you do not know who this is, contact Unleash2019@apnaz.org
Registration Fees WILL NOT be accepted at the conference venue. Unleash2019@apnaz.org
Also, consider attending the Regional Theology Conference
Theme: “Christ and His Church Engaging the Cultures of Our Region”
This will take place on the afternoon of the 22nd and all day on the 23rd
The cost is only an additional $60 to attend.
Register Now!
Sincerely,
The Team, Unleashed!
Unleash2019
On Sunday, 23 September 2018, thousands of churches around the world will join in Freedom Sunday. This unique service is specifically set aside for congregations to pray for, learn about, and support church-led anti-trafficking efforts.
Click here to learn more about Freedom Sunday.
The Asia-Pacific Regional Theology Conference will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 22-23 October 2019. The planners of this conference are calling for scholarly papers.” Read MoreOn 22-23 October 2019, the Asia-Pacific Region will host the Regional Theology Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The theme of this conference will be “Christ and His Church Engaging the Cultures of Our Region.” This event will be held in conjunction with the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, “Unleash the Power 2019,” also being held in Chiang Mai on 19-22 October 2019.
Nazarene Theological College, Brisbane, Principal Dr. Rob Fringer is coordinating this conference, along with the NTC faculty. In preparation for the conference, Dr. Fringer has sent out a call for scholarly papers. These papers will be due to Dr. David McEwan at NTC by October 15, 2018. For more information on submission, and for specific guidance on topics,
follow this link.
Dynamic Language Centre is accepting applications for full-time language teachers in their English language center in Penang, Malaysia. The newly renovated center has been in the business for over 15 years. While they teach many languages, children’s and adult English are their main focus. If you are an experienced children’s teacher, enjoy a wide mix of cultures from Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, and are looking for a rewarding career- we have an opportunity for you!
Dynamic Language Centre is accepting applications for full-time language teachers in their English language center in Penang, Malaysia.
The newly renovated center has been in the business for over 18 years. While they teach many languages, children’s and adult English are their main focus.
If you are an experienced children’s teacher, enjoy a wide mix of cultures from Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, and are looking for a rewarding career- we have an opportunity for you!
Candidates should be:
  • Native English speakers
  • 4-year University degree holders
  • Experienced in teaching children
  • TESOL certified
Join our team! Contact us for further details about the program and available opportunities.
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