Missions
NMI PRESIDENT
VICKIE JONES
Books for Pastors-Tools for Ministry
Why is this project needed?
Education and hands-on experience combine to proberly prepare them for ministry.
Many pastors in world mission regions and non-English congregations in the United States and Canada do not have Wesleyan-Holiness recource materials in their languages. These are desperately needed to equip them for ordination, to develop sermons, and to prepare discipleship helps.
What is being done to help?
NMI has targeted this need for its 90th Anniversary project offering - providing tools for pastors in the form of books or in electronic format where appropriate.
The International Board of Education and the World Mission Department will identify needs and ensure that pastors most in need ore resourced with a library of books in their own languages.
What kinds of books will be provided?
Bible
Biblical resources
Doctrine and theology
Pastoral theolagy
Church history
The Manual and church gorvernance
What will be the results?
Increase the quality of preparation for ordination because pastors will have books available in their own languages.
Develop targeted instructional texts and resources for pastors by this project coming alongside existion programs.
Strengthen evagelical efforts, such as the JESUS film, World Mission Broadcast, and Work & Witness.
Dr. Jim Bond, General Superintendent
"Pastors will be able to prepare better messages and have greater knowledge of the pastoral ministry through the resources. The books program will be a very welcomed and appreciated resource."
Rev. Marcos Machava, Manjacaze District Superintendent, Mozambique
"This profect addresses one of the church's greatest needs. Our response will affect the church and its holiness message for years to come."
Nina Gunter, General NMI Director
Nazarene Missions International
6401 The Paseo
Knasas Ctiy, MO. 64131
phone - 816-999-7000, ext. 2350
E-mail- nmi@nazarene.org
Web Site - www.nazarenemissions.org
MEDICAL PLAN
DID YOU KNOW?....North American helath insurance companies will not insure people living overseas? The Church of the Nazarene must therefore pay ALL the medical expenses related to its missionaries.
Those expenses total aproximatley $2.9 million each year.
The cost of keeping missionaries healthy so they can do their jobs is quite high, and the cost continues to rise. To help defray those costs, the Nazarene Missions International developed the NMI Medical Plan.
The medical plan is an opportunity to help with the helath care costs of Nazarene missionaries. MIssionaries can focus on their work without raising funds to pay for medical care. The money comes from honoring people with Distinguished Service Awards, Memorial Rolls, Gifts from the Heart, or Medical Plan Oferings.
Memorial Roll Certificates are given in honor of deceased friends and lovesones by contributing to the medical needs of our missionaries.
Distinguished Service Awards are given as a tribute to those who areliving and serving the Lord thourgh the church.
Gifts From The Heart may be presented to honor someone on an anniversary, Birthday, promotion, retirement, graduation or arrival of a new baby.
Won't you help our missionaries as they offer help and health to our hurting wourld?
ALABASTER OFFERING
The Alabaster Offering provides funds for proberty and buidings around the world. It gives a sense of performance, the attitude that the Church of the Nazarene intends to "put down roots." Eighty percent of the money is used in world mission areas, and twenty percent goes to multicultural congregations in teh United States and Canada. Alabaster funds help provide land for most Work & Witness profects.
The entire offering goes toward the construction of churches,
schools,
medical facilities,
and homes for missionaries and national workers.
ALABASTER FUNDS 4 PROJECTS EVERY WEEK
Alabaster offerings are usually recieved in September and February
WORLD MISSION BROADCAST
Join us as we take the Gospel to the world through radio, television and internet programs. On the air since 1951, World Mission Broadcast (WMB) reaches even the remotest parts of the world, with words of hope and holiness... and lives are changed.
The cost to support one minute of WMB airtime is $4.00. That's right , $4.00 to air one minute of the Gospel somewhere in the world. How many minutes will you support this year?
As of March 7, 2005, World Mission Broadcast reaching the unreached in:
80 Countries
35 Languages
79 Programs
1,142 Broadcasts
Your participation is needed to reach the unreached through World Mission Broadcast. In addition to the offering, prayer support of individuals and local churches is vital to this broadcast ministry. While NMI promotes the World Mission Broadcast Offering for June of each year, contributions may be made at any time.
COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES
The first Sunday in December is Compassion Sunday in the Church of the Nazarene. The Nazarene Compassionate Ministries offers encouragement through prayer support, information, Crisis Care Kits, and hands-on opportunities.
Following the example of Jesus, we seek to educate, clothe, shelter, feed, heal, and ultimately empower those who suffer under opperssion, injustice, violence, poverty, hunger, and disease. Because NCM exists in and through the Church, we are able to address spiritual concerns alongside physical needs. Our ministries are holistic - addressing the whole person - and sustainable - addressing immediate needs while securing a hopeful future for individuals and their communities.
Donations to NCM are investments in the hope and future that Jesus offers the poor and suffering in our world. We can dream as big as the church will allow, through its continued prayers and financial support. We depend entirely upon God to meet our financial needs through churches and individuals. Your gifts help weave compassion into the fabric of our church around the world.
LINKS
Loving, Interested, Nazarenes, Knowing and Sharing
The LINKS program of the Church of the Nazarene is a network of personal connections between missionaries and Nazarenes around the world. Missionaries are assigned to districts and, then on the district level, connected to local churches. This gives each church an opportunity to become personally acquainted with the missionary family and thier field of service. Typically, churches send packages, cash gifts, cards, and other remembrances to their LINKS missionaries
In return, the churches feel a sense of involvement with the World Mission Enterprise of the church through regular correspondence from the missionaries, updates from their field, and even through deputation services while the missionaries are on furlough. The missionaries are encouraged knowing people care and pray for them. The relationships built over time personalize names and faces that both the missionaries and their LINKS churches value highly.
Ask your local NMI president who your LINKS missionaries are.
Write your LINKS missionaries and assure them of your prayers,
asking for personal requests.Send remembrances for special days like birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays, but remember, surface
mail takes quite a while to arrive in some locations, so plan accordingly.
Children and youth find it especially meaningful to become personally acquainted with a missionary or a missionary's child. Encourage young people to send cards, small gifts, pictures, videos, and audiocassettes to your church's LINKS missionaries.
Mary Wallace
Our New Links Missionary
Retired from Chile
Brief description of responsibilties and activities on field:
Treasurer for the district and missions
Professor in the seminary
Theological Extension Teaching
Church planting
Various activities with children and women's ministries
Items of interest and prayer request for you to pray for:
I had a severe fall last year and would appreciate your prayers for the pain in my back.
Request prayer as I lead the Bible curriculum class in my Sunday School.
We are endeavouing to launch a Spanish ministry with immigrants and refugees in our city. I would appreciate your prayers for my family members that do not know the Lord.
Of course please pray for the nationals carrying on the work in Nicaragua and Chile.
If you would like to write to Mary you can contact the Church of the Nazarene
for the address
" The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust...."
PSALM 18:2