Ray Neu, a Nazarene missionary in Belize for five years, has recently completed a project that was two years in the making: the creation of an audio Bible for church leaders whose primary style of communication is oral in nature rather than literate. “The Board of General Superintendents said last year that the expectations are for the global church to grow by 200,000 members a year along...
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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...
Patrick and Kimberly LeGrand are serving as missionaries in Costa Rica and Panama, arriving on June 4. They will be coordinating Work & Witness trips in both countries. This is their first missions assignment.They have three children: James, 13; Aidan, 10; and Liam, 7.Engage: How did you first recognize God’s call to be involved in missions?LeGrands: After 18 years of owning a business, God...
Ruthie Irene Cordova has served in Guatemala since August 2010 as professor of theology, Bible and pastoral courses at Nazarene Theological Seminary (NTS-Guatemala). She also assists with Work & Witness teams, missions and Compassionate Ministries. In addition, she translates materials and interprets for guest speakers and leaders. Prior to this assignment in Guatemala, Ruthie was a professor...
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...
On March 21, at 5 p.m., hundreds gathered to celebrate the grand opening of the new Gamertsfelder Mission Centre in Frome, Jamaica.Local churches, schools, police, firefighters and government officials joined Nazarenes and the center’s namesake himself, optometrist Dr. Paul Gamertsfelder, for the event. The Jamaica West District superintendent, Rev. Lionel Brown, and his wife, Jennifer Brown, who...
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...
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...
There is a small group that meets at the church in Tocumen, Panama. No more than 30 people are there on any given Sunday, but that doesn’t mean they don’t think they can reach their community. Their neighborhood isn’t an easy one. it’s in the city, but not in the glitzy, cosmopolitan world of highrises a 30-minute drive away. There is violence, prostitution, and an overall air of...
Edwin y Ana Martínez son misioneros en la Oficina Regional de Mesoamérica en Panamá, donde han vivido por los últimos tres años. Ellos han sido misioneros por 10 años y vivieron en Guatemala y Costa Rica antes de mudarse a Panamá. Juntos, Edwin y Ana son los Coordinadores de Literatura para la Región. Edwin también sirve como Superintendente del Distrito Central de Panamá.Ellos tienen...
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