Relief for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
Asia*, a 60-year-old Rohingya woman who fled violence against her people in Myanmar, could not sleep at night in the refugee camp in Bangladesh because she was so cold. On 8 December, Bangladeshi Nazarenes representing Nazarene Compassionate Ministries (NCM) traveled to a Rohingya refugee camp in a place known as [...]
The price for serving refugees: family forced to become refugees, themselves
Despite the war that gripped *Lela’s country for many years, she and her husband had never thought of leaving. They were happy as part of their church’s thriving ministry to the many refugees who had fled fighting to find peace in their area. Then, their family was threatened. A masked [...]
10,000 receive assistance after Bangladesh ravaged by flood
“The monsoon flood destroyed my home. Now I don’t have a bedroom. I stay on the road side,” said Nazmul*, 60, who lives in northern Bangladesh. Nazmul was one of 10,000 people who received assistance from Bangladesh Nazarene Mission (BNM), the compassionate ministries arm of the Church of the Nazarene [...]
New friendships: Regional office engages with refugees in Busingen
Although European Nazarene College (EuNC) campus closed its residential program in Büsingen, Germany, in 2012 and sold the property to the town in 2015, the apartment building there has been given a new purpose: Housing refugees. While EuNC has expanded its reach to 18 countries through 17 learning centers, educating [...]
Deadly Floods Sweep Through South Asia
Extraordinarily heavy monsoon rains have devastated areas in South Asia this week, including Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. More than 1,200 people have died in the floods — including many children — and more than 40 million people have been affected. Thousands of cities and villages have been completely inundated. [...]
New EuNC online learning program reaches more students in CIS Field
Elena Shestakova was taking an online class through European Nazarene College when her pregnancy was stricken with complications. Doctors confined her to a hospital bed for several weeks to protect her health and that of the child. Fortunately for Shestakova, her class was offered online in the fall of 2016, [...]
Are you willing to be healed?
Mary, a staff member of Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Lanka (NCML), makes her own lunch every day before heading out to work. But she rarely gets to eat it. In her job as the local leader for compassionate ministry to laborers and their families in the Sri Lankan tea gardens of [...]
Food opens doors to community for Versailles church
By Nicole Almeida As a teenager growing up in the Caribbean island of Martinique, Jocelyn first learned to cook from his mother. It later became his career. Jocelyn says that “the relationship with my mother and spending time with her, learning what she knew how to do” is what ignited [...]
The Touch of God
by Teanna Sunberg There are so many villages in the vicinity of the Kolonje Lushnje Church of the Nazarene in Albania and many of them have no faith congregation at all. Their combined population reaches 10,000. Albania, once a creative access country, has a small minority Christian community and many [...]
Women celebrate their dreams at Portugal-Spain-Azores retreat
When we started the women’s ministry in our church in Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, Azores, a little over a year ago, we noticed that the main challenge we faced was their inability to dream about their future, and the possibility that it could be better than their present. Like most [...]
Portugal and Azores join forces for mission trip
By Nicole Almeida At the end of July, Nazarenes from Portugal and the Azores joined forces on a mission trip to Calhetas, Azores, to share God’s love with neighborhood children and paint their local school. Calhetas, on the island of São Miguel, has a rough reputation. Domestic violence is pervasive, [...]
Healthy Relationships Build Healthy Community
Kyiv, Ukraine – Can – or should – Christians do non-evangelistic events for the community? This was the question the leaders of Kyiv First Church of the Nazarene discussed as they planned an event together with Kirche in Aktion (KIA), a Nazarene church in Frankfurt, Germany. About three years ago, [...]
Nazarenes design “Hub” for community and creativity in Croatia
In a country where being in a community is part of the culture, Nazarenes wanted to provide a place where people could develop holistically in a spiritual community. Missionaries Dave and Betsy Scott provided the impetus. With friends, volunteer missionaries and local partners, they opened The Hub, after they had [...]
Nazarene Essentials available in 18 Eurasia languages
“Church of the Nazarene? Never heard of it. What kind of church are you? How are you different from other denominations?” Many Nazarenes know what it is like to be asked these questions by friends and acquaintances who are curious about what kind of church they belong to. People often [...]
Church in Bangladesh announces leadership changes
In the past 21 years, the Church of the Nazarene in Bangladesh has grown to more than 3,000 local churches. The expansive growth of new believers and new congregations, as well as extensive church-led ministries within communities, took place under the guidance of trusted local Nazarene pastors and leaders and [...]
Jordanian youth write, direct and perform in drama about love
The youth of Al Ashrafieh Church of the Nazarene, Amman, Jordan, wrote, directed and starred in a complicated drama about love, performing it for a packed house of 600 people at a rented venue 29 April. The play, entitled "The Pride of the Story," depicted a great conflict between love [...]
Nazarenes meet to develop unified refugee response strategy
Frankfurt, Germany -- The refugee situation that has brought over a million displaced people to the shore of the European Union also brought together 11 Nazarene leaders from the Northern Europe and Central Europe fields on April 1 in Frankfurt, Germany. Hosted by Kirche in Aktion (KIA) Frankfurt, and facilitated [...]
NTC faculty member invited to prime minister’s Easter reception
When Phil Rawlings received an invitation to visit No. 10 Downing Street, the iconic address for the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister’s office in London, Rawlings was understandably skeptical. He called the phone number provided, and was surprised to learn the invitation was real. So, 23 March, from 2 to 4 [...]
Dream inspires pastor to remain in troubled area
When their pastor fled because of death threats, a vibrant church in a secure area* was left without a shepherd. Several lay people stepped forward to take leadership and hold the church together. One of those is a young business man, Thomas (not his real name), who has faced traumatic [...]
Eurasia Region begins 3 weeks of prayer and fasting
The Eurasia Region is inviting all its local communities to start this coming year with fasting and prayer, 18 January to 7 February. The objective is to unite Nazarenes across the region in a focused time of deepening their relationships with God, as well as with other people, and worshipping [...]