Rusty and Diane Robbins have been serving as missionaries with the JESUS Film Harvest Partners ministry, which is based in Lenexa, Kansas, USA, since July 2008.Rusty is the field services coordinator and the USA/Canada JESUS Film representative responsible for working with 471 JESUS Film Harvest Partners teams around the world. His role is pivotal in moving resources to team’s needs. He facilitates JESUS Film Ministry Trips to connect partners with field teams. Additionally, he works with district superintendents, pastors and others wishing to experience the moving of the Holy Spirit in JESUS...
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Kent and Kathleen Pelton have lived in Thailand since 2000, serving the Southeast Asia Field. For two years, Kent served as district superintendent of the Northern Thailand District, until February 2013. Kent also has been the chancellor of Southeast Asia Nazarene Bible College (SEANBC) since 2005, but will be stepping down from that responsibility when a new person is elected and installed. Kent is also chairman of The Golden Path, a Nazarene foundation in Thailand established for the development of children and youth through education and literature. While still working with SEANBC, a...
(Read this in English.)El sábado 7 de abril, miles de personas escucharon el Evangelio durante la Serie Honda de Motocross 2013 en la ciudad de Taytay, en las afueras del área metropolitana de Manila en las Filipinas, cuando el Pastor Sam Tamayo predicó durante la ceremonia de aperture de esta carrera nacional.Tamayo y su familia abrieron la pista de carreras y campo de ferias MX Messiah (MX Mesías) en propiedad privada en febrero de 2012 y ahora llevan a cabo eventos de motocross amateur gratuitos todos los domingos, con docenas de participantes y una audiencia de entre 15.000 y 20.000...
On Sunday, April 7, thousands of people heard the Gospel at the Honda 2013 Motocross Series in the city of Taytay, outside of metro Manila in the Philippines, when Pastor Sam Tamayo preached during the opening ceremony the national race.Tamayo (pictured left) and his family opened the MXMessiah motocross race track and fairground on private property in February 2012 and are now hosting free amateur motocross events weekly on Sundays, with dozens of race participants and estimated crowds of between 15,000 and 20,000. This spring they hosted their first fully sponsored national race. The...
Don and Aileen Baker are serving the Keystone Church of the Nazarene in Okinawa, Japan, as interim pastor. They took this position on April 1, 2013. The Bakers also have been volunteer missionaries through Mission Corps (formerly known as Nazarenes in Volunteer Service (NIVS)) since 2006. They served in Kenya, Africa, at the Africa Nazarene University in 2006 and 2008; and volunteered with the Border Initiative in Chapalla, Mexico, in 2009 and in El Paso, Texas, in 2011.They have three adult children: Michael, Diane and Melissa; and three grandchildren: Sarah, 17, Hannah, 4, and Lily, 3....
The Church of the Nazarene’s Work & Witness ministry is marking its 40th year of lay mission work. Since its official inception in 1974 as “Men in Mission,” the ministry has sent 13,471 Work & Witness teams around the world, with 234,711 participants (figures from last report in 2012). Work & Witness is a grassroots-born ministry in which self-funded teams of as few as two people travel to a site to help with construction, medical, technical, and evangelistic needs for up to 21 days. It all began with the first two men ever being elected to what was then called...
Una creencia común es aquélla de que las iglesias que participan en los viajes de misiones denominacionales de corto plazo llamados Trabajo y Testimonio no sólo se vuelven más apasionadas en cuanto a misiones, sino que también se vuelven más generosas al ofrendar. Esta asunción fue estudiada formalmente en el otoño de 2012.El Departamento de Investigación en el Centro de Ministerio Mundial de la denominación examinó las finanzas de más de 500 iglesias en cuatro años antes de su primer viaje de Trabajo y Ministerio, y luego durante los cuatro años siguientes para ver cómo se correlacionaban la...
It’s a commonly held belief that churches participating in the denomination’s short-term mission trip ministry, Work & Witness, become not only more mission passionate, but become more generous where giving is concerned. This assumption was studied formally in the fall of 2012.The Research Center at the denomination’s Global Ministry Center examined the finances of more than 500 churches in the four years before their first Work & Witness trip, and then in the four years after, to see how participation correlated with giving. The results were released in December. “It shows...
Sunny and Lisa Um, from South Korea, are the first Nazarene missionaries to Mongolia, officially opening the Nazarene work in that country on 25 May, 2012. The people known as the Mongols, led by Ghengis Khan, conquered Eurasia and China, forming a vast empire that lasted a hundred years before it broke apart in the 14th century, and came under Chinese rule in the late 1600s. Today, Mongolia is a country in Central Asia, north of China and sharing a border with Russia. The modern nation won its independence from Chinese rule in 1921 and installed a Communist government. In the...
Tomo and Ceny Hirahara are missionaries serving in Thailand, on the Southeast Asia Field of the Asia-Pacific Region since 1999. Tomo is from Japan and Ceny is from the Philippines. They began with Tomo serving as the field's JESUS Film coordinator and teaching in the Southeast Asia Nazarene Bible College (SEANBC). Ceny has served as the field's Nazarene Compassionate Ministries coordinator.From 2007 to the present, they have been forming house churches in the tsunami hard-hit area of Southern Thailand, including ministry to people living with HIV.Engage: How did you first recognize God’...
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