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Jul, 21, 2013 0
In June 2013, I left our two young girls in Prince Edward Island on the Canada Atlantic District and headed as a delegate to the Nazarene Missions International (NMI) Convention in Indianapolis with my husband, Greg, (our Nazarene Youth International district president). I had the whole trip…
Jul, 10, 2013 0
My mother, Doris Ruth Martin Smith, and I were having two of the happiest days of our lives. We did not realize at the time that these would be my mother's last days. This is our story.
After mentioning to my friend and boss, Eddie Estep, about how much I have always liked trucks, he and his…
Jul, 10, 2013 0
In 2012, Portland First Church of the Nazarene (PFCN) started a new congregation called Eden Community. Pastors Mark Goodwin (MG), and Jason Veach (JV), talk about the development of this ministry and how they are seeking to reach the city of Portland, Oregon.
How did the concept of this new…
Jun, 19, 2013 0
Any tribute to Stan Toler would do well to begin with a quote from one of his many books that have challenged, inspired, and encouraged thousands. Here is one of my favorites, from God's Never Failed Me Yet:
'When you are sure of God's calling and you are obedient, it's reassuring. My value, my…
Jun, 12, 2013 0
I appreciate preachers who don't waste my time. Plenty have. But not Jesse Middendorf. His sermons were not shallow, risible, or cute. He did not traffic in the spit-shined 12-minute sermon, or the hour-long, power-pointed meandering of some 'teaching pastors.'
Those of us who heard Pastor Jesse…
Jun, 10, 2013 0
According to Genesis 41:49, Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea, he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.
Since 1968, total giving as a percentage of income has decreased from 3.11 percent to below 2.5 percent representing a decline of nearly 25…
Jun, 10, 2013 0
According to Genesis 41:49, Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea, he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.
Since 1968, total giving as a percentage of income has decreased from 3.11 percent to below 2.5 percent representing a decline of nearly 25…
Jun, 09, 2013 0
In late 1975, then General Superintendent Eugene Stowe came to visit the new work of the Church of the Nazarene in the Dominican Republic. His wife, Faye, invited my 25-year-old wife, Toni, to join her for breakfast.
Faye gave us an awesome gift—her words of wisdom. "Toni, the church will place…
Jun, 09, 2013 0
Arlindo Mondlane is bi-vocational pastor of the Vinte Cinco de Junho (the 25th of June) Church of the Nazarene on the Maputo Mozambique District of the Church of the Nazarene. June 25th is a national holiday/independence day for Mozambique. His other jobs include work in the field of…
Jun, 06, 2013 0
The challenges facing the Christian church never end. Many years ago, my grandfather, Harry J. Felter, pastored the Church of the Nazarene in Dover, New Jersey. At that time, Dover was as far as one could go riding the train that took you into New York City (NYC). There might have been points…