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...
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(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...
Since January, Chuck and Joanne Nicholson have been part of a five-member team working with One Heart Many Hands (OHMH) in the inner city of Indianapolis, Indiana, preparing for General Assembly. The team receives applications from referring partners and then interviews around 120 homeowners to ascertain their needs. They then match the skills of the many teams coming June 16-21, 2013 with the skills needed for each project. Previously, the Nicholsons served in Metro New York after Hurricane Sandy, November 6, 2012 to December 19, 2012. They also served at the Nazarene Camp in...
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...
Editor's note: Phil and Martha Patalano have served in São Tomé and Príncipe (STP), a Portuguese-speaking island country on the equator off the west coast of Africa since April 2008. Their jobs include mission coordinator, district superintendent and theological education coordinator (extension program for training pastors). Their sons (Phil and Jason) attend Rift Valley Academy in Kenya. When our older son, Phil, started traveled to his school in Kenya, he flew alone. He was around 14 years old. We gave him the needed documents each time and he made his way safely. He has since...
Rich Isbell was angry at God.He’d attended church occasionally in California with his wife, but when she died, he wanted nothing more to do with God or church. He couldn’t understand why God had taken his wife. After losing his wife, the working cowboy moved to Texas in 2006 to be close to his daughter and run a horse ranch. His daughter pestered him about coming to church with her. He refused for a while, but finally promised he would give it one chance, and went with her the next Sunday to the Lone Star Cowboy Church of Ellis County, near Dallas, Texas. He felt something as soon...
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