Dutch church goes to city square, raises 11,000 euros for Red Cross
The youth group of the Vlaardingen, Netherlands, Church of the Nazarene took their Internet talk show into the city 11-12 December, when they broadcast for 24 hours from the main square, cooperating with the community to raise more than 11,000 euros for a national Red Cross fundraising drive. The event [...]
Nazarene church helps German town settle refugees
Many refugees into Europe come from cultures that place great value hospitality, so there could be no greater expression of love and welcome than the community hosting a big meal for their new neighbors. That’s exactly what happened 17 October, when a network of churches and organizations in Gottmadingen, Germany, [...]
Eurasians face terror with hope
Nazarene worship services in Paris and across France proceeded as normal Sunday, two days after the 13 November terrorist attacks across the city. The congregations prayed “for the wounded, families suffering the loss of loved ones, and the solidarity of the country,” said Bruce McKellips, field strategy coordinator for the [...]
Letter from Board of General Superintendents about refugee crisis
A Letter from the Church of the Nazarene denomination's Board of General Superintendents: As the war in Syria stretches into its fifth year, the number of people who have had to flee their homes due to violence or persecution has reached 12 million — half of them children — according to [...]
Q&A with Betsy Scott on Croatia refugee relief
Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the Middle East have trudged across southeastern Europe for weeks, buffeted by the rapidly changing policies and politics of various European governments, as they try to make their way to Germany or Austria. When Hungary shut its border on the 15th, Croatia threw open [...]
Nazarenes in Croatia join refugee response
Hundreds of thousands of people leaving the Middle East have trudged across southeastern Europe for weeks, buffeted by the rapidly changing policies and politics of various European governments, as they try to make their way to Germany or Austria. Before 15 September, the refugees initially were flowing through Hungary, where [...]
The refugee crisis: What Nazarenes are doing to help
For four years, the war in Syria has dragged on. For four years, people have hoped for peace, have lingered in their broken cities, have hung on in spite of reality. But the peace has not come, instead, new crises have erupted – foremost, the threatening advance of ISIS. As [...]
Region prepares to open work in Greece in 2016
The Church of the Nazarene is developing plans to send a pioneer ministry team to open Nazarene work in northern Greece in the summer of 2016. Missionaries Joshua and Shannon Herndon, who have spent the past five years serving in Spain, will relocate to a suburb of Thessaloniki to lead [...]
United We Stand: Youth from CIS gather at NYC
"You were all called to travel on the same road and in the same direction, so stay together, both outwardly and inwardly. You have one Master, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who rules over all, works through all, and is present in all. Everything you [...]
Paris churches put their love into practice
It started out in 2009 with feeding a hot, homemade meal every Thursday evening to about 100 people in need in the 18th district of Paris, France. Today, the Paris food ministry has evolved from weekly hot meals to a multi-pronged ministry of compassion that is reaching people in need [...]
NTC Study Abroad expands students’ learning opportunities
For Bailey Weghorst, a senior youth ministry major at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, attending Nazarene Theological College (NTC) in Manchester, UK, for a semester was her first time out of the United States. She was on track to graduate early and attending NTC helped her meet that goal. Nazarene Theological [...]
Fast and flexible – update from Nepal
“Our biggest advantage to being a small organization as Nazarene Compassionate Ministries: We are very fast and very flexible,” said Jörg Eich, Eurasia Region NCM coordinator in a debriefing the day after NCM Nepal team members carried more than 300 bags of rice to the village of Tindhara where every [...]
Nazarenes mobilize to assist earthquake-hit Nepal
Eurasia leaders are still trying to make contact with Nazarenes in Nepal today, and are mobilizing disaster response to help the thousands of people injured or who lost shelter and infrastructure after just around noon Nepali time (April 25) a powerful earthquake hit the country. The US earthquake center recorded [...]
Versailles church attracts neighborhood with concert series
For more than 30 years, the Versailles Church of the Nazarene has been unobtrusively existing in a quiet neighborhood of this city just outside Paris, France. The church was so unobtrusive that most neighbors didn’t even know it was there, although they walked, drove or jogged past it every day. [...]
Churches respond to theft of ministry equipment in Spain
When missionaries Josh and Shannon Herndon opened the rear of their car in mid-February, their hearts sank: They were the victims of a car break-in. Four bags of children’s baseball equipment had been stolen from the vehicle’s hidden compartment in a targeted theft that left behind their GPS and car [...]
Eurasia delegates learn servant leadership at Third Wave
When several youth from Korea and Japan began practicing Tae Kwon Do under the rain and stars of Costa Rica during free time at Third Wave, 6-11 January, Amy Warner, a youth leader from Erskine, Scotland, and several others from the U.S., joined the group, who taught them Tae Kwon [...]
M-Power initiative to mobilize regional missionaries
A Dutch couple in a Nazarene church in the Netherlands sensed God calling them into cross-cultural mission work. So they approached the Eurasia Regional Office of the Church of the Nazarene to inquire how they could become missionaries for the region. At that time, a number of years ago, there [...]
Region mid-way through fasting and prayer emphasis
The Eurasia Region is kicking off the new year with a region-wide prayer and fasting emphasis for 21 days that started 14 January and ends 3 February. With a prayer and fasting guide, prayer calendar, daily devotionals and a Facebook page where people and churches can share prayer requests, the [...]
Christmas parcels a token of love in Sighişoara, Romania
"Thank you so much for this Christmas parcel – but thank you even more for you!" Juliana, sitting on the edge of her bed in her one-room apartment, smiles at us. "I will pray for you – you are more precious than this present!" She indicates the brown package balanced [...]
Nazarene live talk show debuts in Netherlands Nov. 29
Wouter Van der Zeijden was in a worship service at the Church of the Nazarene in Vlaardingen, Netherlands, when Pastor Dennis Mohn preached a sermon about how to be an example for youth. This sermon sparked the idea for Xperience TV, a monthly live Internet TV show made by young [...]