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NNU engineers design water system for Kudjip Nazarene Hospital.
Board of General Superintendents Call To Prayer for Global Theology Conference III
VNBC Celebrates Golden Anniversary
2014 World Evangelism Fund Easter Offering - Together We Can!
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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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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.
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Melanesia-South Pacific Field: Please pray for Nazarene Health Ministries in Papua New Guinea - including the Nazarene Hospital at Kudjip, rural health centres at Imane, Sangape, Bana, and Ulamagi, and our primary health care outreach. All will be greatly affected by a new free primary and subsidized specialty care policy being handed down by the government. Many decisions need to be made regarding the hospital's role in this plan and how health care ministry can continue under the potential demands brought about through this policy. Many things are still being clarified by the government. Please pray for wisdom for the politicians, National Department of Health, Christian Health Services, Nazarene Health Ministries, and church leaders as how to respond to any changes brought about. Pray that whatever happens, Nazarene Health Ministries can continue to serve as a light of hope to hurting people. - 02/28/2014.
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More than just medical miracles at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital!
Nazarene Hospital, Kudjip, PNG
Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, PNG: It is not often that you get to do a discipleship Bible study and engage in prayer time with men who have opposed your mission and work, threatened you, and been aligned with evil purposes that could end your ministry.Recently our Community Based Health Care Director Matthew Galman held a week of devotions with men from the village who work on the hydroelectric dam project. His messages stirred a spiritual hunger that their wives recognized. These women approached our Nazarene Health Ministries team asking that we come to the local village to hold a nondenominational crusade especially for men who needed to be reclaimed from the bondages of sin, drugs and alcohol.
This happened recently with great expectation and included all the local denominations and churches. I had the privilege of sharing God’s word the first night under the tent off-station in Kudjip Village. That night two of the men in the picture came forward to commit their lives to Jesus along with several others. One is the village councilor and the other a leader in the tribe. They were gloriously saved and gave stirring testimonies of wanting God to change their lives.
The revival continued with good responses and cooperation through the final night. That final night when Matthew shared, the altar was filled as many sought Jesus and His deliverance. After the first group got up from the place of prayer, people kept coming until the altars had been filled four times! It is estimated there are now 100 men seeking Christ to lead their lives and homes as a result of the crusade.
We are praising the Lord for His Spirit at work in our village. Please pray with us that these men can be discipled, that they will take leadership in their community, churches and families, that they will continue to grow in grace and maturity, and that they will cooperate with God’s mission here. Many also need recovery from addictions. Pray for the Lord to use Matthew Galman and others in mentoring these men in the community and churches.
We appreciate your prayers so much for these four men who meet with me each Saturday morning on our front porch. They are facing the battle against temptation to return to old ways. It is hard for them to overcome the past and the current peer pressure of those who are not following Christ. What a joy and privilege to journey with them on the road to heaven.
Please continue to pray for those who gave their hearts to Christ. One of the men just lost his father so we are lifting him up in daily prayer.—-Dr. Jim Radcliffe, Surgeon, Kudjip Hospital, PNG
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Global: In a first-ever joint venture, the Eurasia and Asia-Pacific Regions are joining forces in offering a free, six week, online Writing Workshop Webinar. The Webinar entitled, “Powerful Story Telling” is featuring Engage Magazine’s Managing Editor Gina Pottenger, and is intended for anyone who finds themselves blogging, writing newsletters, articles, church communications, or just wanting to improve their writing skills.The following topics will be covered:
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NNU engineers design water system for Kudjip Nazarene Hospital
Nazarene Hospital, Kudjip, Papua New Guinea
Quantifying and measuring comes second nature to the three Northwest Nazarene University engineering students who traveled to Kudjip, Papua New Guinea, during their Christmas break.During the two weeks abroad, the students spent their days with various apparatuses and instruments measuring pipe size and water pressure in the hospital buildings. They located and mapped the main lines that carry water across the campus and assessed the amount of power available in the region and surveyed possible locations for a new water tower. Through all this, they found precisely the dire water situation at the Kudjip Nazarene Hospital.
Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, founded in 1967, is a hub for medical access and training in the highlands of PNG. The hospital is equipped to perform all basic health services and a range of major procedures for inpatients and outpatients.
The 185-acre campus uses 80,000 gallons of water in a normal day of operations. A patchwork of tangled systems provides water for the hospital, school, and staff housing, but none of the methods adequately meet the increasing needs of the medical center that serves over 50,000 patients a year. The medical, missionary, and teaching staff of more than 1,000 people get only 32 percent of their daily water from the single well and water tower on near campus.
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Rain water catchments (green above) are the principle source of water for most people on campus.
During the rainy season, two-thirds of the water is supplied by storm clouds. Large, plastic water tanks sit next to almost every building on campus. Rain collected from each roof, fills these tanks, but as soon as the rain stops so does the source of water to replenish the tanks. During the dry season or drought years, water is in such short supply that the single well is overtaxed and red clay-discolored water is pumped up into the hospital and homes.
To address a growing list of health and safety concerns, the hospital asked NNU Professor of Engineering Stephen Parke if the school could offer any assistance. In January 2013, a team of NNU students visited Kudjip to survey the campus and design a 7-year master building plan. They determined a water system upgrade was the highest priority for the hospital. The quality of work done by the students made NNU the hospital’s top choice to take on a new project this year.
The NNU engineering students accepted the task and are using it to fulfill their senior design requirement. They will design a new well, storage reservoir, water purification system, piping network, and pressurization pumps. The upgrade will be funded by a recently awarded $1.5 million USAID grant with construction beginning later this year.
The team included all the skills needed to complete the project. Ryan Lofhouse is a senior mechanical engineering major. He serves as team leader for the entire project. Seth Leija is an electronic engineer who will design the power grid that will run the pumps for the new well. Benjamin Gordan is a mechanical engineer who will focus on the structure of the new water tower. Freshman Krystal Duran is interested in civil engineering and will learn as much as she can from the older members of the team. Partners in the project, Kyle and Chelsie Kaschmitter, also traveled to PNG with the team. Kyle is a civil engineer with Boise State University who is helping the team. Chelsie, an NNU alumna who works for Mission Aviation Fellowship’s media division, documented the project.
During all this technical work, the team also took time to get to know the people.
There are more than 800 unique cultures in PNG. The local residents all dressed in bright colors and welcomed the visitors with extravagant meals, love, and smiles for the camera. And they sang. Bush churches filled with praise and worship in Tok Pisin, Mi laik praisim nem bilong yu, which means, I like to praise Your holy name. Sermons were heated and passionate and the visiting students felt the energy, even if they didn’t understand the words.
This deep passion hints at another cultural identity. The people of PNG have earned a violent reputation and not without reason. The Kudjip Hospital treats many violent injuries caused by clubs and machetes. The U.S. Department of State continually warns travelers to stay away from rural areas and the deep forest, as skirmishes between warring clans are common.
Duran told of her encounter with a man reputed for violence and misdeeds. Appa, a native New Guinean, met with Duran and Lofhouse during a forest hike to Suicide Falls, a beautiful but aptly named cliff overlooking treacherous white water. As they walked Appa began recounting his well-earned reputation. He was known as a thug, a murderer, and a thief for hire. Appa continued his story. One day he was walking and fell into a river. At the bottom of the current, certain he was about to drown, he prayed his first prayer. He prayed for salvation from the river and for his soul.
Appa is a native pastor who leads a church in the bush. He recently finished Bible college and is a leader in the community.
“You could see his passion for the Lord in every movement,” Duran said. “Every other sentence he praised Jesus. The hospital has cared for members of Appa’s congregation and will be better able to continue their service with a stable water source.”
Another local the students met was Gideon. He sits inside the hospital campus every day. Gideon would look worn and haggard if it wasn’t for his smile. For 33 years he has smiled to missionaries, visitors, and every NNU student that visited the hospital. He makes his living decorating wooden tool handles and bamboo. He takes hot embers and by hand engraves intricate designs. He makes machete handles — tools for both farming and violence — look delicate and beautiful. Gideon tells stories while he works; he says making a living from his art is only possible through the hospital. Decades ago his brother brought samples of his work to the hospital, and there has been steady business since.
Leija explained why the students travel around the world, at their own expense, to design a project that won’t make a profit.
“There is a difference between looking at a map of the campus and being there in person,” he said. “On a map we saw an empty field; in person we saw where the staff and students gather to play rugby. We couldn’t just lay a pipe through there; we had to find another option.”
All the data is collected and stored on computer hard drives and in the students’ memories. This semester, back on the NNU campus, the team will analyze the data and design a comprehensive water system that will meet the long-term needs of the Kudjip Nazarene Hospital and the people who benefit from it. The proposal will then be sent to the hospital, completely free of any design charges. Construction of the new well and water tower is expected to begin next year after the hydroelectric dam is ready to power the system. These engineers will be well prepared to improve the lives of whomever they touch next.--NCN News, Northwest Nazarene University
Board of General Superintendents Call To Prayer for Global Theology Conference III
Johannesburg, South Africa
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).
VNBC Celebrates Golden Anniversary
Cebu City, Philippines
Visayan Nazarene Bible College (VNBC) celebrated its 50th Anniversary this year with the theme “Soaring Higher With God” from Isaiah 40:31. A series of exciting activities marked this week-long event held on February 10 to 14, 2014.On the first day, a motorcade opened the event led by an anniversary float with a parade of cars carrying students, faculty, staff, alumni and parents from VNBC. VNBC Elementary Keyboard Class opened the ceremony with prelude music. Followed by inspiring messages delivered by Mayor Michael L. Rama of Cebu City and Atty. Terry Lianto representing Cebu Vice Governor Agnes A. Magpale. Elementary principal Jill Galarido then led the preschool, high school, elementary and college students with a flag and balloon ceremony. The fifty golden flags represented the fifty years of God’s faithfulness to the College and the balloons signified the prayers for God’s guidance and provision of the college in the succeeding years. A VNBC 50-Voice Choir from the college and the elementary departments directed by Adelma D. Cabantug sang “Lift High the Lord Our Banner” and “The Hallelujah Chorus” during the ceremony.
Each day of the week-long event was highlighted with sporting events, performances, seminars, and exhibit booths with both students and alumni competing in basketball and volleyball games.VNBC poster
Services were held from 2-6 pm on three of those days. Special speakers included Mrs. Shalimar Tamayo (Kids Ministry Made Easy); Rev. Luz Tamayo (Women Leadership); Dr. Jiji Harner (Emotionally Healthy Relationship); Dr. Bill Kwon ( Is the Media Forbidden Fruit?: The Challenge of Christian Life in a Mediated World); Dr. Floyd T. Cunningham ( The Wesleyan Contribution to the Church of God); Rev. Arnel & Christine Jotiz ( Philippine Cross-Cultural Mission to Cambodia).
Tuesday night was a youth worship service led by SBO president Gifthir Elmido along with other high school students. Wednesday evening Rev. Josefin Anoos led the service and the guest speaker was Dr. Melvin K. Rigsby, Asia-Pacific Regional IBOE Coordinator, who preached a moving sermon. Pastors and churches from the Central Visayas District led by their District Superintendent Nilo Rosende participated in this Golden Anniversary Worship service.
On Thursday night, VNBC students, alumni, faculty members and parents joined the cast of performers to sing and dance at the Musical Extravaganza led and directed by Rober Lantao, a rather talented and creative faculty member from college.
During the final Friday evening event “Dinner For A Cause,” about 200 members of VNBC family, alumni, friends and guests attended a dinner program with Dr. Floyd T. Cunningham, as guest speaker. Cunningham is the former President and current, Academic Dean of Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary. This event was a fund raiser intended to help VNBC rehabilitate its Library building that was rendered unsafe for use after an October 15 earthquake. Students and alumni provided musical entertainment during the meal. Capping the Golden Anniversary Celebration, VNBC Academic Dean, Annie Jean Montecastro, led a ceremony recognizing VNBC’s pioneer graduates, past and current administrators and its alumni currently serving the college.
The culminating highlight of the ceremony was the awarding of a posthumous Distinguished Service Award to the late President Dr. Julie Macainan-Detalo for her exemplary contribution and lasting legacy to VNBC. A Julie Macainan-Detalo Scholarship Fund project was also unveiled to VNBC family and partners for the benefit of future, deserving young men and women who are called to ministry and who will attend VNBC for their ministry preparation. Mr. Mario Macainan, brother of Dr. Julie Macainan-Detalo contributed the first “seed” fund of Ten Thousand Pesos to the scholarship project.
VNBC is not just celebrating its 50th year as a Bible College, it is also celebrating a Golden Anniversary to look back with gratefulness, to look now with rejoicing, and to look ahead with optimism as it hopes to soar under the strength and the power of God’s mercy and His faithfulness,” remarked President Jun Cabantug VNBC President.
2014 World Evangelism Fund Easter Offering - Together We Can!
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Together We Can Make A DifferenceSoon 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.
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David Graves, Chair
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